\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> July 31, 1992
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Kennedy Space Center, Florida
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 7 days 23 hr 15 min
\<COLOUR 1> LANDING SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Kennedy Space Center, Florida
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Loren J Shriver, Andrew M Allen, Claude Nicollier, Marsha S Ivins, Jeffrey A Hoffman, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Franco Malerba
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The first Eureca (European retrievable carrier) mission, Eureca 1; Eureca carries experimental equipment for research under microgravity conditions and is designed for repeated deployment and retrieval; first and mainly unsuccessful test of the tethered satellite system, TSS-1, a joint US/Italian project.