OTD…Oct. 22 and STS-52

#OTD in 1997…Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia’s space station Mir

#OTD in 1994…Endeavour launched on the second Space Radar Laboratory mission

American and Soviet crews were launched today in 1975 for the first handshakes in space between the two superpowers as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.