OTD…March 3 and Apollo 9

OTD in 1969…The launch of Apollo 11 for the first human landing on the moon

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 1992…Discovery launched with the first International Microgravity Laboratory.