OTD…Oct. 29 and STS-95

#OTD in 1985…Atlantis launched on her maiden voyage as a new orbiter joined the shuttle fleet

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.