OTD…June 2 and STS-91

#OTD in 2012…Crowds cheer as Endeavour traverses though Los Angeles

#OTD in 1990…Discovery launched the Ulysses probe bound for the sun

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.