OTD…June 3, 1965 and the first American walk in space

#OTD…Launch of Endeavour in 2001 to deliver Canadarm2 to the space station

NASA is gearing up for an intense few weeks of work aboard the International Space Station, staging three spacewalks, moving a docking port from one module to another to support commercial crew ferry ships and capturing an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship carrying nearly 4 tons of equipment and supplies.

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