OTD…Oct. 30 and STS-61A

#OTD…Launch of a 1994 Space Radar Lab mission on Endeavour

#OTD in 2012…Endeavour’s coast-to-coast ferryflight into retirement arrives at Edwards Air Force Base

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.