OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

Today in 1967…The astronauts of Apollo 1 lost their lives in a launch pad fire.

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.

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite