OTD…Oct. 5 and STS-41G

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.

Today in 1967…The astronauts of Apollo 1 lost their lives in a launch pad fire.

#OTD…Launch of Columbia in 1993 on the second flight of the German Spacelab