OTD…Oct. 6 and STS-41

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

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.

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