OTD…Oct. 11 and STS-92

#OTD in 1982 the 3rd launch of the space shuttle and in 1996 the 3rd Mir docking missioN

#OTD in 1996…Columbia launched on a life sciences and microgravity flight.

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.