xxIMAGE 1200_99\223a.Lbm,Crew patch for the STS-42 mission, the 4 indicated by four white stars on the left of the orbiter and the 2 by the two on the right. The gold star honours the memory of astronaut Sonny Carter, killed earlier in the year in a plane crash. IML stands for international microgravity laboratory.
xxIMAGE 1200_99\223b.Lbm,Logo for the IML-1 mission. (STS-42)
xxIMAGE 1200_99\223c.Lbm,Logo for Biorack, the life-science investigation equipment on IML-1. (STS-42)
xxIMAGE 1200_99\224a.Lbm,Pre-flight portrait of the STS-42 crew, against a backdrop of Discovery lifting off the launch pad. The astronauts, from the left, are: Stephen Oswald, Roberta Bondar, Norman Thagard, Ronald Grabe, David Hilmers, Ulf Merbold and William Readdy.
xxIMAGE 1200_99\224b.Lbm,European Space Agency astronaut Ulf Merbold working at the critical point facility during training for the IML-1 mission. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\225.Lbm,Discovery soars from the launch pad on January 22, l992, carrying the first international microgravity laboratory, IML-1. The crew of seven include five US astronauts, together with Roberta Bondar of Canada and Ulf Merbold of the European Space Agency (ESA). (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\226.Lbm,Inside the Spacelab module outfitted for microgravity experiments, Ronald Grabe tests a computer work station specially modified for use in space. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\227.Lbm,Norman Thagard working at the IML-1 fluids experiment system, which produces images of fluid flow during the processing of materials. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\228.Lbm,Convection currents induced by heating an oil and aluminium powder mixture in a zero-gravity experiment on IML-1. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\229.Lbm,Norman Thagard (right) and Stephen Oswald unload samples from the biomedical rack on IML-1. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\230.Lbm,William Readdy measures the veins on his right leg and monitors the blood circulation in an IML-1 experiment. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\231.Lbm,STS-42 mission commander Ronald Grabe puts in some exercise on the shuttle treadmill.
IMAGE 1200_99\232.Lbm,Canadian payload specialist Roberta Bondar works at the biorack, while Stephen Oswald changes a film magazine on the IMAX camera carried in the IML module.
IMAGE 1200_99\233.Lbm,Here Roberta Bondar checks Stephen Oswald's blood flow on Discovery's mid-deck. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\234.Lbm,Roberta Bondar getting into the MVI (microgravity vestibular investigation) chair to begin an experiment into body balance. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\235.Lbm,David Hilmers, wearing an instrumented helmet assembly, sits in the MVI chair during an IML experiment into body balance.
IMAGE 1200_99\238.Lbm,One of the 'electronic still' photographs taken by a camera developed at the Johnson Space Center, which produces digitized images with a resolution approaching photographic film quality. The print features the flat-topped volcano Tolbachinsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Soviet eastern Asia.
IMAGE 1200_99\239.Lbm,Thick pack ice covers James Bay, an arm of Hudson Bay in Canada. The large island off the west shore (left) is Akimiski. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\240.Lbm,Twin lakes dominate this photograph of the southern part of the desolate Tibetan Plateau, a few kilometres north of the Nepal border. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\241.Lbm,Mission commander Ronald Grabe (left) and pilot Stephen Oswald are at the controls as Discovery re-enters the atmosphere after its near-7 day IML-1 mission. Note the pink re-entry glow. (STS-42)
IMAGE 1200_99\242.Lbm,A few seconds from touchdown, Discovery glides back to the Edwards Air Force Base in California on January 30, 1992. (STS-42)
