OTD…Sept. 16 and STS-79

#OTD…Launch of a 1994 Space Radar Lab mission on Endeavour

The first crew to inhabit Skylab — Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin — launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.

#OTD in 2006…A star-spangled start to Discovery’s STS-121 mission