OTD…Jan. 28 and STS-51L

#OTD in 2009…Endeavour launched to complete the Japanese segment of the International Space Station

#OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.