OTD…Sept. 30 and STS-68

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

The flight of Gemini 4 launched today in 1965 for NASA’s first Extra Vehicular Activity spacewalk by Ed White on a four-day orbital mission with commander Jim McDivitt.

#OTD in 1992…Atlantis launched to test the Tethered Satellite System