OTD…March 6 and Kepler

The final flight of a Delta 2 rocket, a mainstay of the U.S. launch industry for nearly 30 years, began at 6:02 a.m. PDT (9:02 a.m. EDT; 1302 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with NASA’s ICESat 2 Earth science satellite.

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

#OTD in 2001…Atlantis launched the Quest airlock module to the International Space Station