OTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112

#OTD in 1985…Challenger launched the first German Spacelab

#OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission

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.