OTD…Oct. 12 and Endeavour

The mission to the orbiting outpost featured three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who will spend roughly 180 days on the space station. Liftoff occurred at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1998 on the Neurolab Spacelab mission