April 14, 1981: Landing of Columbia on STS-1

Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD in 2006…A star-spangled start to Discovery’s STS-121 mission