Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on
Edwards
AFB.
First mission with orbiter Endeavour; first
EVA by
Thuot and
Hieb
on 10.05.1992 (3h 43m) to capture the stranded Intelsat VI-F3-satellite
(failed); second
EVA again by
Thuot and
Hieb
on 11.05.1992 (5h 26m) for the same work, but again failed; third
EVA by
Akers,
Thuot and
Hieb
on 13.05.1992 (8h 29m) and this time the astronauts were succesful, when they
captured Intelsat with their hands and not with the capture bar; it was the
first time, that three astronauts performed an
EVA at the same
time; the satellite was repaired (new perigee kick motor) and then again
released into orbit; fourth
EVA by
Akers and
Thornton on 14.05.1992 (7h 45m) to test
EVA-tools and
structures.