OTD…April 5 launches of STS-37 and 131

#OTD in 1992…Atlantis launched to test the Tethered Satellite System

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.

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission