OTD…Oct. 23 and STS-120

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

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford