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STS-47

Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status
Success

Crew

Robert L. Gibson

Robert L. Gibson

Status: Retired
10/30/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/3/1984
Last Flight: 6/27/1995

Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot who currently races regularly at the annual Reno Air Races.

Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown

Status: Retired
3/11/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 9/12/1992
Last Flight: 12/20/1999

Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel.

Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison

Status: Retired
10/17/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 9/12/1992
Last Flight: 9/12/1992

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After medical school and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 until 1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to found a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is a dancer and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. She is the current principal of the 100 Year Starship organization.

Mamoru Mohri

Mamoru Mohri

Status: Retired
1/29/1948 -
Nationality: Japanese
Type: Government
First Flight: 9/12/1992
Last Flight: 2/11/2000

Mamoru “Mark” Mohri (毛利 衛 Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948), AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.
Mohri was selected by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (now JAXA) to train as a payload specialist for a Japanese materials science payload. He flew his first space mission aboard STS-47 in 1992 as chief payload specialist for Spacelab-J. Mohri subsequently made another trip into space as part of mission STS-99 in 2000.

Jan Davis

Jan Davis

Status: Retired
11/1/1953 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 9/12/1992
Last Flight: 8/7/1997

Nancy Jan Davis is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space. She is now retired from NASA.

Jerome Apt

Jerome Apt

Status: Retired
4/28/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/5/1991
Last Flight: 9/16/1996

Jerome "Jay" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from ground-based observatories.

Mark C. Lee

Mark C. Lee

Status: Retired
8/14/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 5/4/1989
Last Flight: 2/11/1997

Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001.

Mission

STS-47

STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences.

Trajectory

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Mission patch for STS-47

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

222 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Agency

Lockheed Space Operations Company – LSOC

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: LSOC
  • Country: USA
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