OTD…Sept. 8 and STS-106

#OTD in 2012…Endeavour’s coast-to-coast ferryflight into retirement arrives at Edwards Air Force Base

#OTD…In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched

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.