OTD…June 25 and STS-50

#OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1990 with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe!

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir