OTD…March 3 and Apollo 9

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

#OTD…Launch of a 1994 Space Radar Lab mission on Endeavour

#OTD…America’s first shuttle launch in 1981 and another in 1985