OTD…April 19 and STS-100

NASA’s first space station — the Skylab orbital workshop — was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.

#OTD…Launch of a 1993 environmental mission on Discovery and Atlantis’ ISS flight in 2002

Today in 1986…Space shuttle Challenger and her seven astronaut crew were lost during launch.