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STS-45

space shuttle mission

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Dirk Frimout
…backup payload specialist for the STS-45 mission (a renamed version of STS-61-K). Frimout became a primary crew member on STS-45 when American payload specialist Michael Lampton experienced medical problems, and he flew his first space mission aboard the Atlantis space shuttle in 1992.
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…backup payload specialist for the STS-45 mission (a renamed version of STS-61-K). Frimout became a primary crew member on STS-45 when American payload specialist Michael Lampton experienced medical problems, and he flew his first space mission aboard the Atlantis space shuttle in 1992.
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Kathryn Sullivan
On STS-45 (March 24–April 2, 1992), Sullivan was the payload commander of the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science, a laboratory on a pallet housed in the space shuttle Atlantis’s cargo bay that contained 12 experiments studying Earth’s atmosphere.
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On STS-45 (March 24–April 2, 1992), Sullivan was the payload commander of the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science, a laboratory on a pallet housed in the space shuttle Atlantis’s cargo bay that contained 12 experiments studying Earth’s atmosphere.
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