On This Date…March 13 and STS-29

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 Challenger in 1985 on a Spacelab research flight

#OTD in 1999…Columbia launched with the first woman commander and the Chandra X-ray Observatory