STS-47

Robert L. Gibson

• Birthday: 10/30/1946
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 06/27/1995

Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a r...

Curtis Brown

• Birthday: 03/11/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 12/20/1999

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

Mae Jemison

• Birthday: 10/17/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 09/12/1992

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to trave...

Mamoru Mohri

• Birthday: 01/29/1948
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: Japan
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 02/11/2000

Mamoru “Mark” Mohri (毛利 衛 Mōri Mamoru, born 29 January 1948), AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut...

Jan Davis

• Birthday: 11/01/1953
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 08/07/1997

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

Jerome Apt

• Birthday: 04/28/1949
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/05/1991
• Last Flight: 09/16/1996

Jerome "Jay" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carneg...

Mark C. Lee

• Birthday: 08/14/1952
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/04/1989
• Last Flight: 02/11/1997

Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air For...

Mission

STS-47

• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

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.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 266 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

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