STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program.
Spacelab-J—a joint NASA and National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) mission utilizing a manned Spacelab module—conducted microgravity investigations in materials and life sciences. The international crew, consisting of the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the Shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space and the first married couple to fly on the same space mis...
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STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program.
Spacelab-J—a joint NASA and National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) mission utilizing a manned Spacelab module—conducted microgravity investigations in materials and life sciences. The international crew, consisting of the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the Shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space and the first married couple to fly on the same space mission (speculation was fueled that they had sex in space), was divided into red and blue teams for around the clock operations. Spacelab-J included 24 materials science and 20 life sciences experiments, of which 35 were sponsored by NASDA, 7 by NASA and 2 collaborative efforts.
Materials science investigations covered such fields as biotechnology, electronic materials, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, glasses and ceramics, metals and alloys, and acceleration measurements. Life sciences included experiments on human health, cell...
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