STS-47 carried Spacelab-J, a joint NASA-NASDA mission with microgravity materials and life-science experiments. The crew included Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese shuttle astronaut.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12.9 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 1992, 14:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1992-061
- Launches in 1992
- 63rd of 97
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