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STS-46 Launch Statement 7/31/92

Like clockwork, Atlantis lifted off this morning right on time at 9:56 am
EDT to begin the STS-46 mission.  The ascent into exceptionally clear
Florida skies was absolutely nominal.  First and second stage performance
were right on the money.  Atlantis is now in a circular 267-statute-mile-
high orbit.  The flight crew will spend the afternoon activating the
European Space Agency's European Retrievable Carrier spacecraft and then
deploy it from the payload bay early tomorrow morning.  On Sunday, the
STS-46 crew will begin to carry out a series of experiments with the
Tethered Satellite System, which will be deployed on Monday.

Mission Control at the Johnson Center normally begins issuing
status reports 6-12 hours after a launch.
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SUMMARIES OF SPACELAB-J EXPERIMENTS

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STS-47 Launch 9/12/92

The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off this morning at 9:23:00.068 am CDT to
begin the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission.

Status reports from Mission Control at the Johnson Center and the
Spacelab Mission Operations Center in Huntsville normally begin to be
issued about 6-12 hours after launch.
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STS-47 MCC Status Report 1
September 12, 1992
10 a.m. Central

The three main engines of the Space Shuttle Endeavour roared to life at 9:23
a.m.  Central giving the first Japanese Spacelab mission an on-time start.

Endeavour breezed through a flawless countdown before carrying its seven-member
crew, and the 43 Spacelab-J experiments safely to a 160 n.m. orbit.

Later today, crew members will begin powering up the Spacelab module.  The 2
1/2- hour procedure activates the Spacelab module and the experiment hardware.
The Spacelab-J payload complement includes 24 materials sciences investigations
and 19 life sciences experiments.  Of those 43 experiments, 34 are provided by
Japanese investigators and 9 are provided by the United States.

For the STS-47 mission, the seven-member crew will be divided into two teams
for 24- hour experiment operations.  The Red Team consists of Pilot Curt Brown,
Payload Commander Mark Lee and Japan's first shuttle Payload Specialist Mamoru
Morhi. The Blue Team includes Mission Specialists Jay Apt, Jan Davis and Mae
Jemison. STS-47 Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson is free to align his sleep
schedule as appropriate but plans to follow the Red Team.

The Blue Team will be the first to have a sleep period starting today at about
1 p.m.  Central, while the Red Team starts the payload operations.

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STS-47 Mission Control Status #2

MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-47 Status Report #2


Saturday, September 12, 1992, 4:30 p.m. CDT

  Endeavour lifted off at 9:23 a.m.  CDT this morning on the fiftieth flight of
the Space Shuttle Program.

After a near-perfect ascent phase, the seven-member crew split into two work
teams for seven days of around-the-clock science investigations.  The Blue Team
went to sleep about 12:30 p.m.  CDT, while the Red Team proceeded with their
work schedule.

The Red Team, headed by mission commander "Hoot" Gibson, pilot Curt Brown, the
payload commander Mark Lee and payload specialist Mamoru Mohri began their
first full day's work in space.  Lee and Mohri, assisted by Brown, completed
the Spacelab activation tasks smoothly, completing that task a few minutes
ahead of schedule.

Lee entered the on-orbit laboratory first, at about 12:26 p.m.  CDT, followed
by Mohri. Lee and Mohri continue setting up and turning on the 43 experiments
carried in the Spacelab module.

Soon after entering the lab, Lee reported seeing a small amount of water at the
Spacelab rack 10 bypass valve.  Lee cleaned up the water and later sent
camcorder video so that both Mission Control and Payload Operations Control
engineers could evaluate the leak.  Ground controllers here in Houston are
monitoring the Orbiter and Spacelab systems to assist the Marshall payload
controllers in troubleshooting currently under way at both Centers.

The Blue Team of mission specialists Jay Apt, Mae Jemison and Jan Davis will
awaken about 7:30 p.m.  CDT to prepare for their first full work day of mission
STS-47. The Blue Team will take over from the Red Team about 9:30 p.m.  CDT.

Endeavour's systems continue to perform normally, with no problems being
worked.  Endeavour circles the Earth every 90 minutes at 163 nautical miles
altitude.

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SL-J SPACELAB STATUS REPORT 1

SL-J Mission Status Report #01
6:30 p.m. CDT, September 12, 1992
00/09:05 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama


The 50th Space Shuttle flight lifted off today on a mission known
as Spacelab-J, a joint venture between the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) and the National Space Development
Agency of Japan (NASDA).  Once orbital altitude had been reached,
Payload Commander Mark Lee was given the "go ahead" to activate the
Spacelab module, located in the payload bay of Space Shuttle
Endeavour.  Here, crewmembers will spend the next seven days,
working around the clock in two 12-hour shifts, conducting 43
experiments in the areas of materials and life sciences.

Payload Specialist Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese astronaut to
fly in space, began a life sciences experiment to evaluate the
effect of low gravity on the distribution of microfilaments in
monkey kidney cells.  These cells are contained in cell culture
kits, consisting of soft cases that contain culture vessels used to
observe cell growth, extract materials produced by these cells and
suspend the growth of these cells for inspection after the
mission.

Another life sciences investigation was initiated when Lee moved
the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)/Sperm kit from the orbiter
mid-deck to the Spacelab refrigerator.  HCG is a human hormone
which Lee will inject into four female frogs to induce ovulation.
Once eggs from these African clawed frogs have been harvested, they
will be fertilized, to provide information about the manner in
which they develop in space.  Half of the fertilized eggs will be
placed in an incubator, allowing them to develop in the near
weightless enviornment of space.  The other half of these eggs will
be placed in a centrifuge that spins to simulate normal gravity.
This experiment is designed to help scientists learn more about
what role gravity plays in the early development of an organism.
Principal investigator Dr. Kenneth Souza of NASA's Ames Research
Center will study the results of this investigation to see if new
generations of a species can be conceived and develop normally in a
microgravity environment.

Lee also activated the Materials Experiment Laboratory today.
During the activities associated with this activation, he noticed a
water leak at one of the valves in the fluid cooling system
associated with some of the experiments in Spacelab rack 10.
Scientists and engineers at the Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Center in Huntsville, Ala., decided to have Lee isolate the leak by
shutting off valves going to and from the experiments in rack 10.
This action prevented further loss of water until engineers can
determine how to troubleshoot the cooling system.  Until then,
materials science experiments which do not generate a great amount
of heat will continue in this NASDA facility.  However, the
investigations scheduled to use the high-temperature furnaces
located in rack 10 will not be activated until the cooling system
for this experiment rack is fully operational.

Also during this first 12-hour shift, Lee will begin an experiment
which will study the effect of microgravity on the metabolism of
calcium and bone formation.  Before humans can live and work for
long periods of time in space, we must first understand what causes
the loss of calcium from bones and the resultant loss of bone
density.  Then, scientists such as principal investigator Dr.
Tatsuo Suda of Showa University can work toward developing
countermeasures for this space-related problem.  In this Spacelab-J
experiment, 30 fertilized chicken eggs will be kept at a constant
temperature in a thermoelectric incubator.  After landing, some of
these eggs will be examined immediately to determine bone formation
and the rest of the eggs will be allowed to develope to maturity,
providing data on future development of eggs exposed to the
weightlessness of space.

Pilot Curtis Brown activated the Protein Crystal Growth (PCG)
experiment, located in the orbiter mid-deck, during this shift.
PCG is part of the Spacelab-J payload in an effort to produce
large, high-quality crystals of selected proteins under controlled
conditions in space.  The crystals will grow in special hollow
chambers, engineered to expose crystal droplets to saturated
precipitant vapor solutions.

During the next 12-hours, Mission Specialists Jan Davis and Science
Mission Specialists Mae Jemison, will continue the activities
associated with materials and life sciences.  Davis and Jemison
will perform echocardiographic scans as part of the Lower Body
Negative Pressure experiment to help scientists find
countermeasures for the effects of lower body fluid loss during
spaceflight.  Davis also will work with an experiment to fabricate
light-weight materials in space.
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STS-47 KEPLERIAN ORBITAL ELEMENTS


STS-47 element set JSC-006 (orbit 5)

STS-47
1 22120U 92 61  A 92256.84827988  .00035000  00000-0  26700-3 0    68
2 22120  57.0027 106.4342 0009709 280.5761  79.4195 15.89094234    59

Satellite: STS-47
Catalog number: 22120
Epoch time:      92256.84827988 -----> (12 SEP 92   20:21:31.38 UTC)
Element set:     JSC-006
Inclination:       57.0027 deg
RA of node:       106.4342 deg          Space Shuttle Flight STS-47
Eccentricity:     .0009709                SGP4 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee:   280.5761 deg         from NASA flight Day 1 vector
Mean anomaly:      79.4195 deg
Mean motion:   15.89094234 rev/day                 W5RRR
Decay rate:     3.5000e-04 rev/day~2      NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev:               5

G.L.CARMAN



                               STS-47
               FLIGHT DAY 1 STATE VECTOR (PREDICTED)
                         ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
                 (Posted 09/10/92 by Roger Simpson)

The following vector for the flight of STS-47 is provided by NASA
Johnson Space Center Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in
ground track plotting programs.  The vector is valid for flight day
one.  The vector represents the predictied trajectory of Endeavour
during on orbit operations, after the OMS-2 maneuver.  The vector
assumes an on time launch.  Questions regarding these postings may
be addressed to Roger Simpson, Mail Code DM4, L.  B. J.  Space
Center, Houston, Texas 77058, Telephone [phone].


Lift off Time : 1992/256/14:23:00.000
Lift off Date : 09/12/92

Vector Time (GMT) : 256/15:02:00.000
Vector Time (MET) : 000/00:39:00.000
Orbit Count : 1
Weight : 232292.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 2250.0 SQ FT

     M50 Elements                           Keplerian Elements
-----------------------                 --------------------------
X    =     4356133.9  FT                A          = 3610.0564 NM
Y    =   -21255599.9  FT                E          = 0.0007975
Z    =     3100044.5  FT                I  (M50)   =  57.24904 DEG
Xdot =  14175.944919  FT/S              Wp (M50)   = 164.21388 DEG
Ydot =   -162.414163  FT/S              RAAN (M50) = 106.85504 DEG
Zdot = -21018.227040  FT/S            / N (True)   =   6.10440 DEG
                           Anomalies  \ M (Mean)   =   6.09469 DEG

                                        Ha         = 163.59129 NM
                                        Hp         = 163.12847 NM

Mean of 1950 (M50)   : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System      origin is the center of the earth.  The epoch
                       is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
                       X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
                       Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
                       Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A:    Semi-major axis
E:    Eccentricity                         N:    True anomaly
I:    Inclination                          M:    Mean anomaly
Wp:   Argument of perigee                  Ha:   Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node    Hp:   Height of perigee

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STS-47 TV SKED REV A

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