July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns home

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched to deploy three satellites and rendezvous with another for daring repair

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite

The splashdown of Orion in the Pacific Ocean concludes the EFT-1 shakedown cruise for NASA’s new space capsule.