OTD…Jan. 9 and STS-32

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:

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