Twenty years ago today — June 25, 1992 — the Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center carrying U.S. Microgravity Laboratory I (USML-1).
(The STS-50 crew in the Spacelab module. NASA image.)
The STS-50 crew consisted of astronauts Richard N. Richards, Kenneth D. Bowersox, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ellen S. Baker, Carl J. Meade, Lawrence J. DeLucas, and Eugene H.Trinh. Over the course of their 13-day mission, they conducted over a dozen different experiments in the USML-1 module.
And, in bonus space history left over from my lazy birthday weekend: 30 years ago yesterday (June 24, 1982) the Soviet Union launched Soyuz T-6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying cosmonauts Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov and Alexander S. Ivanchenko, along with French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien, to the Salyut 7 space station.
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