OTD…Sept. 8 and STS-106

Today in 1967…The astronauts of Apollo 1 lost their lives in a launch pad fire.

#OTD in 1994…Discovery launched to develop new techniques for monitoring Earth’s environment from space…and in 2006…Construction of the space station resumed as Atlantis delivered a power-generating truss

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