OTD…Aug. 27 and STS-51I

#OTD in 1988…Discovery returned Americans to space after the Challenger accident

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 Endeavour in 2001 to deliver Canadarm2 to the space station