OTD…Oct. 30 and STS-61A

#OTD in 1984…Challenger launched the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

#OTD in 2000…Atlantis launched on a mission to make the International Space Station a home in orbit

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.