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| Flight | Launch | Landing | Name | Country | Parameters | |
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| STS-42 | January 22, 1992 (14:52 GMT) |
January 30, 1992 (16:07 GMT) |
Commander: Ronald Grabe (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Perigee: 293 km Apogee: 305 km Inclination: 57° 129 orbits |
| Pilot: Stephen Oswald (1st Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Norman Thagard (4th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: William Readdy (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: David Hilmers (4th Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (14th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
35th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Payload Specialist 1: Roberta Bondar (1st Flight) (CSA Group 1) |
Canada | F | Time 8 days 1 hour 4 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Ulf Merbold (2nd Flight) (ESA Group 1) |
Germany | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Kenneth Money | Canada | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Roger Crouch | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-14 (7K-STM #64) |
March 17, 1992 (10:54 GMT) |
August 10, 1992 (01:05 GMT) |
Commander: Aleksandr Viktorenko (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 7) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 373 km Apogee: 394 km Inclination: 51.6° 2,303 orbits 1 spacewalk |
| Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Kaleri (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 6) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Researcher: Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1st Flight) (DARA/DLR Group 3 - Mir '92 Mission) (Down - Soyuz TM-13) (7 days 21 hours 57 minutes) |
Germany | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
136 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (47° 23' N, 69° 22' E) |
1st Backup Crew: Anatoli Soloviyov | Russia | M | Time 145 days 14 hours 10 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Sergei Avdeyev | Russia | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Reinhold Ewald | Germany | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 |
Docked with Mir March 19, 1992 (12:32 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir August 9, 1992 (21:46 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Valeri Korzun | Russia | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Laveykin | Russia | M | ||||
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| STS-45 | March 24, 1992 (13:13 GMT) |
April 2, 1992 (11:23 GMT) |
Commander: Charles Bolden (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Perigee: 292 km Apogee: 304 km Inclination: 57° 143 orbits |
| Pilot: Brian Duffy (1st Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Kathryn Sullivan (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: David Leestma (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Michael Foale (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (11th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
9th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Dirk Frimout (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for ATLAS-1) |
Belgium | M | Time 8 days 22 hours 9 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Byron Lichtenberg (2nd Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for ATLAS-1) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Michael Lampton | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Charles Chappell | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-49 | May 7, 1992 (23:40 GMT) |
May 16, 1992 (20:57 GMT) |
Commander: Daniel Brandenstein (4th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 363 km Apogee: 375 km Inclination: 28.35° 141 orbits 4 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Kevin Chilton (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Richard Hieb (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Bruce Melnick (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (1st Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
36th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Mission Specialist 3: Pierre Thuot (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | Time 8 days 21 hours 17 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 4: Kathryn Thornton (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 5: Thomas Akers (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
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| STS-50 | June 25, 1992 (16:12 GMT) |
July 9, 1992 (11:43 GMT) |
Commander: Richard Richards (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Perigee: 256 km Apogee: 260.8 km Inclination: 28.45° 221 orbits |
| Pilot: Kenneth Bowersox (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Bonnie Dunbar (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Ellen Baker (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Carl Meade (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (12th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
10th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Lawrence DeLucas (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for USML-1) |
USA | M | Time 13 days 19 hours 30 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Eugene Trinh (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for USML-1) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Joseph Prahl | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Albert Sacco | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-15 (7K-STM #65) |
July 27, 1992 (06:08 GMT) |
February 1, 1993 (03:49 GMT) |
Commander: Anatoli Soloviyov (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 196 km Apogee: 216 km Inclination: 51.6° 2,989 orbits 4 spacewalks |
| Flight Engineer: Sergei Avdeyev (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 8) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Researcher: Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (1st Flight) (CNES Group 2 - Antares Mission) (Down - Soyuz TM-14) (13 days 18 hours 56 minutes) |
France | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
100 km NW of Arkalyk | 1st Backup Crew: Gennadi Manakov | Russia | M | Time 188 days 21 hours 41 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Poleshchuk | Russia | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Jean-Pierre Haigneré | France | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 |
Docked with Mir July 29, 1992 (07:46 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir February 1, 1993 (00:26 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Vasili Tsibliyev | Russia | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Balandin | Russia | M | ||||
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| STS-46 | July 31, 1992 (13:56 GMT) |
August 8, 1992 (13:11 GMT) |
Commander: Loren Shriver (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 299 km Apogee: 306 km Inclination: 28.45° 127 orbits |
| Pilot: Andrew Allen (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Claude Nicollier (1st Flight) (ESA Group 1) (NASA Group 9) |
Switzerland | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Marsha Ivins (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Jeffrey Hoffman (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (12th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
11th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 4: Franklin Chang-Diaz (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Time 7 days 23 hours 15 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Franco Malerba (1st Flight) (ASI Group 2) |
Italy | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Umberto Guidoni | Italy | M | ||||
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| STS-47 | September 12, 1992 (14:23 GMT) |
September 20, 1992 (12:53 GMT) |
Commander: Robert Gibson (4th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 297 km Apogee: 301 km Inclination: 57° 126 orbits |
| Pilot: Curtis Brown (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Mark Lee (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Jerome "Jay" Apt (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Jan Davis (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (2nd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
12th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 4: Mae Jemison (1st Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | F | Time 7 days 22 hours 30 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Mamoru Mohri (1st Flight) (NASDA Group 1) |
Japan | M | ||||
| Backup Mission Specialist 4: Stanley Koszelak | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Chiaki Mukai | Japan | F | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Takao Doi | Japan | M | ||||
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| STS-52 | October 22, 1992 (17:09 GMT) |
November 1, 1992 (12:53 GMT) |
Commander: James Wetherbee (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 28.45° 159 orbits |
| Pilot: Michael Baker (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Charles Veach (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: William Shepherd (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (13th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
13th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 3: Tamara Jernigan (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | F | Time 9 days 20 hours 56 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Steven MacLean (1st Flight) (CSA Group 1) |
Canada | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Bjarni Tryggvason | Canada | M | ||||
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| STS-53 | December 2, 1992 (13:24 GMT) |
December 9, 1992 (20:43 GMT) |
Commander: David Walker (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 369.06 km Apogee: 379.31 km Inclination: 57° 116 orbits |
| Pilot: Robert Cabana (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Guion Bluford (4th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (15th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
37th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Mission Specialist 2: James Voss (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Time 7 days 7 hours 19 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 3: Michael Richard Clifford (1st Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
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