OTD…Oct. 15 and Cassini

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

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon

VIDEO: The winged spaceship Columbia returned to Earth with a pinpoint landing at Edwards Air Force Base on this day 35 years ago, concluding the maiden flight of the space shuttle.