OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched a new NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched to deploy three satellites and rendezvous with another for daring repair

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.