STS-47

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Mission emblem
Mission emblem STS-47
Mission dates
Mission: STS-47
COSPAR-ID : 1992-061A
Crew: 7th
Begin: September 12, 1992, 14:23:00  UTC
Starting place: Kennedy Space Center , LC-39B
Landing: September 20, 1992, 12:53:23 UTC
Landing place: Kennedy Space Center, Lane 33
Flight duration: 7d 22h 30m 23s
Earth orbits: 126
Rotation time : 90.5 min
Orbit inclination : 56.9 °
Apogee : 301 km
Perigee : 297 km
Covered track: 5.26 million km
Team photo
v. l. No. Front: Jerome Apt and Curtis Brown Back: Jan Davis, Mark Lee, Robert Gibson, Mae Jemison and Mamoru Mōri
v. l. No. Front: Jerome Apt and Curtis Brown Back: Jan Davis, Mark Lee, Robert Gibson, Mae Jemison and Mamoru Mōri
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STS-47 ( english S pace T ransportation S ystem) is a mission designation for the US Space Shuttle Endeavor (OV-105) of NASA . The launch took place on September 12, 1992. It was the 50th space shuttle mission and the second flight of the space shuttle Endeavor.

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Mission overview

The second flight of the space shuttle Endeavor began on September 12, 1992 with a take-off from launch pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center . STS-47 was the tenth Spacelab mission. For the first time a couple flew into space together, because at the time Mark Lee and Jan Davis were married.

The Spacelab module in the Discovery's payload bay

In order to enable experiments around the clock, the team was divided into a red and a blue team, each working in shifts. The experiments that were carried out in the Spacelab included investigations from the fields of materials science, biotechnology, fluid dynamics, biology (cell division) and behavioral theory. In addition, there were twelve get-away containers in the payload bay, in which automatic experiments were carried out. One of them contained an experiment by American scouts. Further experiments were carried out on the middle deck of the Endeavor.

Among other things, novel semiconductor materials were produced during the mission in 24 material experiments, the behavior of oil droplets and the dynamics of liquids in weightlessness were investigated, and various glasses, ceramics, metals and alloys were tested. Medical-biological studies dealt with the effects of weightlessness on humans and other living organisms. For this purpose, developmental and physiological experiments with frog eggs, frogs, fish, fruit flies, wasps, chicken embryos, mushroom and plant seeds as well as animal and plant cell cultures were carried out. Furthermore, biorhythms were examined, the acceleration of the space shuttle due to the influences of the living beings on board was measured very precisely and routine work of the shuttle program was carried out. This also included the contact of the crew with radio amateurs worldwide ( SAREX II).

Due to some technical difficulties at the beginning and sufficient energy reserves, the mission was extended by one day. Ultimately, it was a complete success and ended on September 20th with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Commons : STS-47  - album with pictures, videos and audio files