Manned Space Flight, USA, Shuttle Lift off of Space Shuttle Endeavour, 12th September 1992

Manned Space Flight, USA, Shuttle Lift off of Space Shuttle Endeavour, 12th September 1992. This was the 50th Space Shuttle launch and the second flight of Endeavour. The crew consisted of Mission Commander Robert L Gibson; Pilot Curtis L Brown Jr; Payload Commander Mark C Lee; Mission Specialists N Jan Davis and Jay Apt; Science Mission Specialist Dr Mae C Jemison and Payload Specialist Mamoru Mohri. The main payload carried on the seven-day mission, designated STS-47, was the Spacelab-J science laboratory. The Space Shuttle, the world's first partially reusable launch vehicle, first flew on 12th April 1981 and has been used for all America's manned space missions ever since. It normally carries a crew of five to seven astronauts and can lift a payload of some 25,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit. ©SSPL/NASA