STS-42

Discovery (14)

USA

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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	22.01.1992
Launch time:	14:52 UT
Launch site:	Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Launch pad:	39-A
Altitude:	302 km
Inclination:	57,0°
Landing date:	30.01.1992
Landing time:	16:07 UT
Landing site:	Edwards AFB

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Job	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Grabe	Ronald John	CDR	3	8d 01h 14m	129
2	Oswald	Stephen Scot	PLT	1	8d 01h 14m	129
3	Thagard	Norman Earl	MSP	4	8d 01h 14m	129
4	Readdy	William Francis "Bill"	MSP	1	8d 01h 14m	129
5	Hilmers	David Carl	MSP	4	8d 01h 14m	129
6	Bondar	Roberta Lynn	PSP	1	8d 01h 14m	129
7	Merbold	Ulf Dietrich	PSP	2	8d 01h 14m	129

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Grabe
2	Oswald
3	Thagard
4	Readdy
5	Hilmers
6	Bondar
7	Merbold

Landing
1	Grabe
2	Oswald
3	Hilmers
4	Readdy
5	Thagard
6	Bondar
7	Merbold

Backup Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Job
6	Money	Kenneth Eric	PSP
7	Crouch	Roger Keith	PSP

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Flight

Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Edwards AFB.

First flight of International Microgravity Laboratory IML-1, to explore the complex effects of weightlessness on living organism and materials processing; the crew performed 55 experiments on the areas of life sciences, low gravity materials processing and fluid-physics; Oswald made a film from the surface of Africa and Europe; this film should be used for the movie "Destiny in Space".