OTD…Oct. 22 and STS-52

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission

#OTD…Launch of a 1994 Space Radar Lab mission on Endeavour

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.