OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

#OTD in 1998…The launch of Discovery on final shuttle-Mir docking mission

#OTD in 1983…Challenger launched with America’s first woman astronaut. Watch the launch:

Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific today in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy’s challenge to a nation of landing a man to the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.