OTD…Oct. 11 and STS-92

America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

#OTD…Launch of the first shuttle mission to service a satellite in space in 1984