STS-50
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STS-50 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter. Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused b
Spacelab Module LM1 in Columbia's payload bay, serving as the United States Microgravity Laboratory.
From left: Baker, Bowersox, Dunbar, Richards, Meade, Trinh and DeLucasSpace Shuttle program← STS-49 (47)STS-46 (49) →
Lawrence DeLucas wearing stocking plethysmograph during mission.
Spacelab computer
Bonnie J. Dunbar
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Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station.
STS-50
…116,693 kg (257,264 lb) Landing mass 103,814 kg (228,871 lb) Payload mass 12,101 kg (26,678 lb) Crew Crew size 7 Members Richard N. Richards Ken Bowersox Bonnie J. Dunbar Ellen S. Baker Carl J. Meade Lawrence J. DeLucas Eugene H. Trinh Start of mission Launch date June 25, 1992, 16:12:23 UTC (12:12:23 pm EDT) Launch site…
Dunbar in 1997
1987 portrait
Preparing to perform bio-medical test on the STS-61-A mission
Wearing an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit, Dunbar prepares to don a helmet and be lowered by a hoist device for a session of underwater training in the Johnson Space Center's weightless environment training facility (WET-F).