OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

#OTD in 1995…Endeavour launched to deploy and retrieve solar satellite and Wake Shield Facility

#OTD…Launch of the first shuttle mission to service a satellite in space in 1984

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.