OTD…Oct. 18 and STS-34 and STS-58

#OTD…The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite

#OTD in 1997…Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department