OTD…July 1 and STS-94

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

Shuttle Endeavour launched for the 25th and final time on this date in 2011.

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.