OTD…Sept. 30 and STS-68

Today in 1996…The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff:

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

#OTD in 2001…Atlantis launched the Quest airlock module to the International Space Station