OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1998 on the Neurolab Spacelab mission