OTD…Jan. 24 and STS-51C

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

#OTD in 2007…NASA’s Dawn probe launched to explore the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt.