OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

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

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford

#OTD in 1989…Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993…Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight