OTD…Oct. 22 and STS-52

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.

#OTD…The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission