OTD…Oct. 12 and Endeavour

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 in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997