OTD…Sept. 7 and STS-69

#OTD in 1985…Discovery launched on the first classified space shuttle mission for the Department of Defense. Watch the liftoff:

As a dress rehearsal mission for the moon landing, Apollo 10 launched today in 1969 with Cernan, Young and Stafford

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.