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On This Date…Feb. 28

February 28, 2015 Justin Ray

The shuttle Atlantis launched on a top-secret mission for the Department of Defense on this date in 1990.

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OTD…May 15 and Faith 7

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The final manned Mercury mission was launched atop an Atlas rocket on this day in 1963 with Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for a 34-hour, 22-orbit flight.

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Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.

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    May 14, 2025
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