OTD…Oct. 30 and STS-61A

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.

#OTD in 1991…Atlantis launched another of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites

#OTD in 1994…Columbia launched on a Spacelab microgravity flight