On This Day… Endeavour Launches on ASTRO-2 Mission

#OTD in 1998…Discovery launched John Glenn’s return to space

Scott Carpenter launched atop an Atlas rocket to become the second American to orbit the Earth today in 1962, flying for 4 hours and 39 minutes aboard Aurora 7 while making three revolutions of the globe.

25 years ago this afternoon, Hubble was deployed from shuttle Discovery