On This Date…March 13 and STS-29

#OTD in 2007…NASA’s Dawn probe launched to explore the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt.

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon

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