OTD…Jan. 31 and Apollo 14

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.