OTD…Jan. 27 and Apollo 1

#OTD in 1998…Discovery launched John Glenn’s return to space

NASA’s Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy today in 2009, successfully launching aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus