OTD…Oct. 29 and STS-95

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

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

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