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Payload Specialist Roberta Bondar and Astronaut Stephen Oswald

Payload Specialist Roberta Bondar and Astronaut Stephen Oswald
Payload Specialist Canadian Roberta Bondar and astronaut Stephen Oswald pilot work aboard space shuttle Discovery.

STS042-201-009 (22-30 Jan 1992) — Canadian Roberta L. Bondar, payload specialist representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), works at the International Microgravity Laboratory’s (IML-1) biorack while astronaut Stephen S. Oswald, pilot, changes a film magazine on the IMAX camera. The two were joined by five fellow crew members for eight-days of scientific research aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in Earth-orbit. Most of their on-duty time was spent in this IML-1 Science Module, positioned in the cargo bay and attached via a tunnel to Discovery’s airlock.