OTD…Oct. 11 and STS-92

#OTD in 1989…Columbia launched with a classified communications satellite for the Defense Department

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.

Shuttle Endeavour launched for the 25th and final time on this date in 2011.