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On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD…In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched

#OTD…The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

OTD…Launch of Discovery in 1991 on a Defense Department research flight

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1993 on the second flight of the German Spacelab