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…Launch of Challenger in 1985 on a Spacelab research flight

#OTD in 2012…Kennedy Space Center bid final farewell to Endeavour