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VideoOTD…April 25 and the Hubble deploy
25 years ago this afternoon, Hubble was deployed from shuttle Discovery
VideoOTD…April 24 and the birth of Hubble
#OTD...Launch of Discovery in 1990 with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe!
VideoOTD…April 19 and STS-100
#OTD...Launch of Endeavour in 2001 to deliver Canadarm2 to the space station
VideoFalcon 9 successfully launches, descends to off-balance landing
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with a 2.2-ton package of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station on Tuesday, but the booster toppled over after descending to a barge parked in the Atlantic Ocean.
VideoOTD…April 12 and STS-1 and 51D
#OTD...America's first shuttle launch in 1981 and another in 1985
VideoSoyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew
A Soyuz rocket is sitting on a historic launch pad in Kazakhstan after a railroad journey at sunrise Wednesday positioned the crew ferry craft for liftoff Friday with a three-man crew destined for the International Space Station, including two spaceflight veterans who will spend nearly one year in orbit.
VideoOTD…March 24 and STS-45
Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis' STS-45 mission in March 1992.
VideoOTD…March 22 and STS-3 and STS-76
#OTD in 1982 the 3rd launch of the space shuttle and in 1996 the 3rd Mir docking missioN
VideoOn This Date…March 15 and STS-119
#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.
VideoOn This Date…March 13 and STS-29
#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite