OTD…Jan. 9 and STS-32

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station

#OTD in 1992…Columbia launches on the first Extended Duration Orbiter mission

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.