OTD…Sept. 7 and STS-69

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

Today in 1971…The launch of Apollo 14 to Fra Mauro with Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell.

#OTD in 1990…Columbia launched to retrieve NASA’s Long duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on the longest Shuttle flight to date.