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VideoOTD…Aug. 30 and STS-8 and STS-41D
#OTD in 1983...Challenger lifts off on the first nighttime shuttle launch...and Discovery launches on her inaugural Spaceflight
VideoOTD…Aug. 27 and STS-51I
#OTD in 1985...Discovery launched to deploy three satellites and rendezvous with another for daring repair
VideoHeavy cargo mounted atop Atlas 5 rocket for upcoming launch
Hoisting a 15,000-pound satellite atop an Atlas 5 rocket Wednesday, United Launch Alliance finished assembling its next space-bound booster for liftoff Aug. 31 in support of the U.S. Navy.
VideoOTD…Aug. 18 and STS-68 abort
OTD in 1994...Endeavour experienced an on-pad abort due to a main engine problem during startup
VideoOTD…Aug. 10 and STS-105
#OTD in 2001...Discovery launched on an International Space Station crew exchange mission
VideoOTD…Aug. 8 and STS-28 and STS-118
#OTD in 1989...Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department
VideoOTD…Aug. 7 and STS-85
#OTD in 1997...Discovery launched to deploy and later retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS atmospheric research satellite
VideoOTD…Aug. 2 and STS-43
#OTD in 1991...Atlantis launched another of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites
