OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched today in 1969 aboard Apollo 11 for one of the defining moments of the 20th century — man’s first landing on the moon.

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