OTD…Oct. 22 and STS-52

#OTD in 1991…Atlantis launched another of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites

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

Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.