OTD…Oct. 30 and STS-61A

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

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite