Crew:
    Ronald Grabe [3], Commander
    Stephen Oswald [1], Pilot
    Norman Thagard [4], Mission Specialist
    David Hilmers [4], Mission Specialist
    William Readdy [1], Mission Specialist
    Roberta Bondar [1], Payload Specialist (Canada)
    Ulf Merbold [2], Payload Specialist (Germany)

Launch:
    Pad: 39-A [32]
    Date: 22 January 1992
    Time: 14:52:33 UTC

Orbit:
    Altitude: 163 nm
    Inclination: 57 degrees
    Orbits: 129
    Duration: 8 days, 1 hours, 14 minutes, 44 seconds
    Distance: 2,921,153 miles

Landing:
    Location: Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, CA [35]
    Date: 30 January 1992
    Time: 16:07:17 UTC
    Rollout: 58 seconds (3,000 meters, 9,841 feet)

Highlights:
    Around the clock research was done in the International Microgravity Laboratory carried in the pressurized Spacelab module LM2.

Oswald, Bondar, Thagard, Grabe, Hilmers, Merbold, Readdy

Archived NASA mission page for STS-42

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