OTD…March 3 and Apollo 9

#OTD…Launch of a 1993 environmental mission on Discovery and Atlantis’ ISS flight in 2002

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford