STS-47
Sign in to saveSTS-47 was NASA's 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences inside Spacelab-J, a collaborative laboratory inside the shuttle's payload bay sponsored by NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). This mission carried Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese astronaut aboard the shuttle, Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, and the only married couple to fly together on the shuttle, Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis, which
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-47
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-47Spacelab-J
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-47 payloadbay.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Spacelab Module LM2 in Endeavours payload bay, serving as the Spacelab-J laboratory.
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Microgravity research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 126
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (10:23amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (8:53:24amEDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 57.02°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.00 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Backup crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Secondary Experiments
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
- Videos and Media
STS-47 was NASA's 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences inside Spacelab-J, a collaborative laboratory inside the shuttle's payload bay sponsored by NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). This mission carried Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese astronaut aboard the shuttle, Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, and the only married couple to fly together on the shuttle, Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis, which had been against NASA policy prior to this mission.
== Crew ==
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