The Story
50th Space Shuttle Mission
2nd Flight of Endeavour
Crew:
Robert L. Gibson, Commander
Curtis Brown, Pilot
Mark C. Lee, Mission Specialist
Jerome Apt, Mission Specialist
Jan Davis, Mission Specialist
Mae Jemison, Mission Specialist
Mamoru Mohri, Payload Specialist
The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences inside Spacelab-J, a collaborative laboratory inside the shuttle's payload bay sponsored by NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). This mission carried Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese astronaut aboard the shuttle, Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, and the only married couple to fly together on the shuttle, Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis, which had been against NASA policy prior to this mission.
Description
50th Space Shuttle Mission
2nd Flight of Endeavour
Crew:
Robert L. Gibson, Commander
Curtis Brown, Pilot
Mark C. Lee, Mission Specialist
Jerome Apt, Mission Specialist
Jan Davis, Mission Specialist
Mae Jemison, Mission Specialist
Mamoru Mohri, Payload Specialist
The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences inside Spacelab-J, a collaborative laboratory inside the shuttle's payload bay sponsored by NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). This mission carried Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese astronaut aboard the shuttle, Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go to space, and the only married couple to fly together on the shuttle, Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis, which had been against NASA policy prior to this mission.
