OTD…Aug. 28 and STS-128

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department

The flight of Gemini 4 launched today in 1965 for NASA’s first Extra Vehicular Activity spacewalk by Ed White on a four-day orbital mission with commander Jim McDivitt.

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