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STS-42 PRESS KIT JANUARY 1992 PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONTACTS Mark Hess/Jim Cast/Ed Campion Office of Space Flight NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/453-8536) Mike Braukus/Paula Cleggett-Haleim/Brian Dunbar Office of Space Science and Applications NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/453-1547) Lisa Malone Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (Phone: 407/867-2468) Mike Simmons Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. (Phone: 205/544-6537) James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 713/483-5111) Jane Hutchison Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. (Phone: 415/604-9000) Dolores Beasley Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301/286-2806) Myron Webb Stennis Space Center, Miss. (Phone: 60l/688-334l) Nancy Lovato Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, Calif. (Phone: 805/258-3448) CONTENTS GENERAL RELEASE...................................................4 MEDIA SERVICES....................................................5 STS-42 QUICK-LOOK FACTS...........................................6 TRAJECTORY SEQUENCE OF EVENTS.....................................7 SUMMARY OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES......................................7 SPACE SHUTTLE ABORT MODES.........................................8 VEHICLE AND PAYLOAD WEIGHTS.......................................8 STS-42 PRELAUNCH PROCESSING......................................13 IML SCIENCE OPERATIONS...........................................14 LIFE SCIENCES EXPERIMENTS........................................15 GRAVITATIONAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS....................24 MICROGRAVITY VESTIBULAR INVESTIGATIONS..........................26 MENTAL WORKLOAD PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS.........................26 SPACE PHYSIOLOGY EXPERIMENTS.....................................27 MATERIALS SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS....................................32 SPACE A