OTD…Jan. 22 and STS-42

Today in 1986…Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon