OTD…March 6 and Kepler

#OTD in 1985…Challenger suffered an engine shutdown on her way to orbit for a Spacelab mission

Scott Carpenter launched atop an Atlas rocket to become the second American to orbit the Earth today in 1962, flying for 4 hours and 39 minutes aboard Aurora 7 while making three revolutions of the globe.

#OTD…Launch of a 1993 environmental mission on Discovery and Atlantis’ ISS flight in 2002