OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

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.

US-French-Saudi crew launched aboard Discovery with a multi-satellite payload