OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

#OTD in 2005…Discovery launched on the first space shuttle mission after the Columbia tragedy

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

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.