Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-42, carrying the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1) Spacelab module with a seven-member international crew to study weightlessness effects on materials and organisms.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.1 T
- Flight
- 45th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 22 January 1992, 14:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1992-002
- Launches in 1992
- 2nd of 97
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