OTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112

#OTD in 1996…Columbia launched on a life sciences and microgravity flight.

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station