OTD…Final launch of Endeavour five years ago

The mission to the orbiting outpost featured three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who will spend roughly 180 days on the space station. Liftoff occurred at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

#OTD in 1995…Endeavour launched to deploy and retrieve solar satellite and Wake Shield Facility

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.