STS-45
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STS-45 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mi
Components of the ATLAS-1 laboratory in the payload bay of Atlantis
Standing: Lichtenberg, Foale, Leestma, Sullivan and Frimout Seated: Duffy and BoldenSpace Shuttle program← STS-42 (45)STS-49 (47) →
STS132 Atlantis undocking 2
Michael Foale
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Colin Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and he is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard bo
STS-45
…mass 93,009 kg (205,050 lb) Payload mass 9,947 kg (21,929 lb) Crew Crew size 7 Members Charles Bolden Brian Duffy Kathryn D. Sullivan David Leestma Michael Foale Dirk Frimout Byron K. Lichtenberg Start of mission Launch date March 24, 1992, 13:13:39 UTC (8:13:39 am EST) Launch site Kennedy, LC-39A Contractor…
Michael Foale official astronaut portrait
Michael Foale (foreground) exercising on the ISS