OTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

#OTD…Gamma Ray Observatory launched in 1991 on Atlantis and Discovery’s 2010 ISS flight