OTD…Aug. 28 and STS-128

#OTD in 1999…Columbia launched with the first woman commander and the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1993 on the second flight of the German Spacelab