OTD…Jan. 9 and STS-32

#OTD in 1982…Columbia launches on the fourth space shuttle mission. #OTD in 1995…Atlantis launches on first shuttle-Mir docking flight

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.