OTD…April 8 launches of STS-56 and 110

#OTD…Launch of Atlantis in 1989 to send the Magellan space probe to Venus

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.

#OTD in 1982…Columbia launches on the fourth space shuttle mission. #OTD in 1995…Atlantis launches on first shuttle-Mir docking flight