OTD…March 3 and Apollo 9

#OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1990 with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe!

The U.S. launched its first man into space on this date, May 5, 1961, as Alan Shepard rode the Freedom 7 capsule on a 15-minute suborbital flight to 116.5 miles in altitude and 303 miles downrange to splashdown.

#OTD in 1996…Columbia launched on a life sciences and microgravity flight.