OTD…Oct. 29 and STS-95

#OTD in 2001…Discovery launched on an International Space Station crew exchange mission

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.

Today in 1996…The launch of Columbia and the ill-fated Tethered Satellite System. Watch the liftoff: