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35 Years Ago: STS-36 Flies a Dedicated Department of Defense Mission


On Feb. 28, 1990, space shuttle Atlantis took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on STS-36, the sixth shuttle mission dedicated to the Department

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