OTD…Oct. 3 and STS-51J

#OTD in 1995…Columbia launched on a microgravity science Spacelab flight

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight

A mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope blasted off on this date in 2002.