OTD…Oct. 22 and STS-52

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

The first crew to inhabit Skylab — Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin — launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.

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