OTD…Jan. 28 and STS-51L

#OTD in 1983…Challenger launched with America’s first woman astronaut. Watch the launch:

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

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.