Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off with history-making crew 20 years ago this hour (1992)

1990s, space exploration


Video: '1992: Space Shuttle Flight 50 (STS-47) - Endeavour'

(Saturday, September 12, 1992, 10:23:00.0680 a.m. EDT) — The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off today, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space, Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese national to fly on a U.S. spaceship.