OTD…July 12 and STS-104

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#OTD in 1992…Columbia launched the LAGEOS-2 laser-reflection satellite