OTD…Feb. 22 and STS-75

The U.S. launched its first man into space on this date, May 5, 1961, as Alan Shepard rode the Freedom 7 capsule on a 15-minute suborbital flight to 116.5 miles in altitude and 303 miles downrange to splashdown.

#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

#OTD in 1991…The launch of Columbia on Spacelab Life Sciences 1 mission