OTD…Aug. 7 and STS-85

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 1991…Atlantis launched another of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites

#OTD in 1999…Columbia launched with the first woman commander and the Chandra X-ray Observatory