STS-42
Launch: January 22, 1992
Landing: January 30, 1992 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
Astronauts: Ronald J. Grabe, Stephen S. Oswald, Norman E. Thagard, David C. Hilmers, William F. Readdy, Roberta L. Bondar and Ulf D. Merbold
Space Shuttle: Discovery
The primary payload was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), making its first flight and using the pressurized Spacelab module. The International crew was divided into two teams for around-the-clock research on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and the effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts042-s-001
Date: October 1991
STS-42
Launch: January 22, 1992
Landing: January 30, 1992 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
Astronauts: Ronald J. Grabe, Stephen S. Oswald, Norman E. Thagard, David C. Hilmers, William F. Readdy, Roberta L. Bondar and Ulf D. Merbold
Space Shuttle: Discovery
The primary payload was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), making its first flight and using the pressurized Spacelab module. The International crew was divided into two teams for around-the-clock research on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and the effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts042-s-001
Date: October 1991