OTD…July 26 and STS-114

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 1988…Discovery returned Americans to space after the Challenger accident

#OTD in 1995…Columbia launched on a microgravity science Spacelab flight