OTD…June 5 and STS-40

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.

#OTD in 2012…Journey of shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles begins

#OTD…The first launch of Challenger in 1983 and Columbia’s shortened Spacelab mission in 1997