OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon

#OTD in 1983…Challenger lifts off on the first nighttime shuttle launch…and Discovery launches on her inaugural Spaceflight

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.