OTD…Oct. 5 and STS-41G

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1991 on a Defense Department research flight

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.