STS-46

STS-46 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis and was launched on July 31, 1992, and landed on August 8, 1992.

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Loren Shriver Third and last spaceflight
Pilot	Andrew M. Allen First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Claude Nicollier, ESA First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer	Marsha Ivins Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3	Jeffrey A. Hoffman Third spaceflight
Mission Specialist 4	/ Franklin Chang-Díaz Third spaceflight
Payload Specialist 1	Franco Malerba, ASI Only spaceflight
Robert L. Gibson had originally been selected to command STS-46, however, after he was involved in an air-race collision, he was suspended from training for this mission.[1] Gibson would fly again on STS-47.

Backup crew

Position	Astronaut
Payload Specialist 1	Umberto Guidoni, ASI

Seat[2]	Launch	Landing	Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck. Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.
1	Shriver
2	Allen
3	Nicollier	Hoffman
4	Ivins
5	Hoffman	Nicollier
6	Chang-Díaz
7	Malerba

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  EURECA after deployment
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  TSS-1 satellite
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  TSS-1 tether close-up deployment
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  TSS-1 fully extended deployment

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• STS-75, a space shuttle mission with objectives similar to those of STS-46

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

• NASA mission summary Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

• STS-46 Post Flight Presentation