IMAGE 1200_99\297.Lbm,Crew patch for STS-50, the first US microgravity laboratory (USML) mission. It features a USML banner trailing from the shuttle orbiter payload bay.
IMAGE 1200_99\298.Lbm,Carrying the USML, Spacelab-type laboratory, and modified for the first long-duration shuttle mission, Columbia powers its way into a cloudy sky on June 25, 1992. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1200_99\299.Lbm,The USML in orbit inside Columbia's payload bay. In the foreground is the tunnel that connects it with the mid-deck crew cabin. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\300.Lbm,Eugene Trinh monitoring experiments at the drop physics module inside the USML. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\301.Lbm,On Columbia's mid-deck Bonnie Dunbar assembles a sample cartridge for the crystal growth furnace. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\302.Lbm,Bonnie Dunbar, payload commander on the USML mission, unloads experimental equipment. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\303.Lbm,Columbia's pilot Kenneth Bowersox services the carbon dioxide removal system on the mid-deck. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\304.Lbm,One of the experiments on the USML, exploring the behaviour of liquid/vapour interfaces under zero-g conditions. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\305.Lbm,Bonnie Dunbar assists Lawrence DeLucas in the lower body negative pressure experiment on the USML. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\306.Lbm,Mission commander Richard Richards and Ellen Baker display their respective amateur radio callsigns on Columbia's flight deck. They take part in the ongoing shuttle amateur radio experiment (SAREX). (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\307.Lbm,Bonnie Dunbar and Richard Richards take time off from their experiments to take a meal break. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\308.Lbm,Mission specialist Ellen Baker works out on the bicycle ergonometer on Columbia's mid-deck. (STS-50)
IMAGE 1300_99\309.Lbm,The traditional crew portrait on STS-50 features at top pilot Kenneth Bowersox; then red team members (from the left) Lawrence DeLucas, Richard Richards and Bonnie Dunbar; and blue team members Carl Meade, Ellen Baker and Eugene Trinh.
