OTD…Oct. 13 and Endeavour

#OTD in 1993…Endeavour launched a new NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

#OTD in 1983…Challenger launched with America’s first woman astronaut. Watch the launch:

The final manned Mercury mission was launched atop an Atlas rocket on this day in 1963 with Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for a 34-hour, 22-orbit flight.