OTD…Oct. 12 and Endeavour

#OTD in 1985…Atlantis launched on her maiden voyage as a new orbiter joined the shuttle fleet

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.

#OTD…In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched