OTD…Sept. 27 and Dawn September 27, 2015 Justin Ray #OTD in 2007…NASA’s Dawn probe launched to explore the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt. http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d327/ DawnOTD
News Dawn mission managers await NASA decision on spacecraft’s future June 17, 2017 Stephen Clark The future of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, running low on hydrazine fuel and now flying around the dwarf planet Ceres without the help of internal pointing wheels, will be decided in the coming weeks by top space agency managers.
Video OTD…March 3 and Apollo 9 March 3, 2016 Justin Ray Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.
Video On this date…March 4 launch of STS-62 March 4, 2015 Justin Ray #OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission