OTD…May 15 and Faith 7

Today in 1986…Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.

The first crew to inhabit Skylab — Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin — launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.

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