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STS-50: Science, Mission highlights & Impacts with debris and micrometeoroids
STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory-1) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter. Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused by the remnants of Hurricane Darby.
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STS-50 topic overview
The analysis highlights Science, Mission highlights and Impacts with debris and micrometeoroids as prominent areas in the source structure around STS-50.
Related topics
42
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
46
Extracted relationships
105
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
46
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Mission highlights · 33 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Impacts with debris and micrometeoroids · 2 topics
Mission insignia · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Apogee altitude
309 km (192 mi)
Contractor
Rockwell International
COSPAR ID
1992-034A
Crew size
7
Distance travelled
9,200,000 km (5,700,000 mi)
Inclination
28.46°
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
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Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
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How STS-50 connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around STS-50 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, STS-50 → Columbia, Completed, Conducted, Crystal Growth Furnace, Demonstrated, Drop Physics Module, Earth, Earth's, EDO, Experiment, Extended Duration Orbiter, GBX, Glovebox Facility, Introduced, Microgravity, Shuttle, Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom, Surface Tension Driven Convection, The Space Shuttle Columbia Another extracted example is STS-50 → Columbia, Crew, During STS-50, EDO Medical Project, Extended Duration Orbiter, If, LBNP, Lower Body Negative Pressure, Microgravity Laboratory-1, NASA, One, Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom, Thanks, The, The Space Shuttle, They, To, USML-1. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
STS-50
Top relations
related to Major mission accomplishments· 23
STS-50 → Columbia, Completed, Conducted, Crystal Growth Furnace, Demonstrated, Drop Physics Module, Earth, Earth's, EDO, Experiment, Extended Duration Orbiter, GBX, Glovebox Facility, Introduced, Microgravity, Shuttle, Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom, Surface Tension Driven Convection, The Space Shuttle Columbia
related to Extended duration orbiter (EDO)· 19
STS-50 → Columbia, Crew, During STS-50, EDO Medical Project, Extended Duration Orbiter, If, LBNP, Lower Body Negative Pressure, Microgravity Laboratory-1, NASA, One, Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom, Thanks, The, The Space Shuttle, They, To, USML-1
related to Mid-deck microgravity experiments· 16
STS-50 → About, AIDS, Astroculture, Columbia's, Factor, HIV Reverse Transcriptase Complex, Included, Microgravity Laboratory-1, Protein Crystal Growth, Scientists, The, The Protein Crystal Growth, USML-1, While, X-ray, Zeolite Crystal Growth
related to Other payloads· 11
STS-50 → IPMP, It, Pacific Ocean, Polymer Membrane Processing, Polynesian, SAREX, Shuttle, Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, The Investigations, The STS-50, Through
Members· 7
STS-50 → Bonnie J. Dunbar, Carl J. Meade, Ellen S. Baker, Eugene H. Trinh, Ken Bowersox, Lawrence J. DeLucas, Richard N. Richards
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 105 structured relationships around STS-50. Examples in this analysis include STS-50 → Apogee altitude → 309 km (192 mi) and STS-50 → Contractor → Rockwell International. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
STS-50
Apogee altitude
309 km (192 mi)
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Contractor
Rockwell International
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COSPAR ID
1992-034A
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Crew size
7
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Distance travelled
9,200,000 km (5,700,000 mi)
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Inclination
28.46°
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Landing date
July 9, 1992, 11:42:27 (1992-07-09UTC11:42:28Z) UTC (7:42:27 am EDT)
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Landing mass
103,814 kg (228,871 lb)
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Landing site
Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
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Launch date
June 25, 1992, 16:12:23 (1992-06-25UTC16:12:23Z) UTC (12:12:23 pm EDT)
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Launch mass
116,693 kg (257,264 lb)
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Launch site
Kennedy, LC-39A
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Members
Richard N. Richards
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Members
Ken Bowersox
1.00
infobox
STS-50
Members
Bonnie J. Dunbar
1.00
infobox
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Members
Ellen S. Baker
1.00
infobox
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Members
Carl J. Meade
1.00
infobox
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Members
Lawrence J. DeLucas
1.00
infobox
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Members
Eugene H. Trinh
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infobox
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Mission duration
13 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes, 4 seconds
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Mission type
USML-1 microgravity research
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Names
Space Transportation System-50
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Operator
NASA
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Orbits completed
221
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Payload mass
12,101 kg (26,678 lb)
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Perigee altitude
302 km (188 mi)
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Period
90.60 minutes
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Reference system
Geocentric orbit
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Regime
Low Earth orbit
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SATCAT no.
22000
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around STS-50 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Conducted, Tension and System. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
space shuttle
Space
Mission
Duration
Orbiter
Experiment
Extended
Flight
Sts-50
Growth
First
System
Crystal
kennedy space center
Growth
System
Flight
Glovebox
Crystal
Convection
Tension
Protein
Science
Sts-50
Surface
Experiment
spacelab long module
Drop
Module
Physics
Spacelab
Convection
Tension
Surface
Apparatus
System
Experiment
Crystal
Orbiter
extended duration orbiter
Duration
Extended
Orbiter
Module
Mission
Shuttle
Flight
Space
Apparatus
Convection
Tension
First
space station freedom
Growth
System
Flight
Glovebox
Crystal
Convection
Tension
Protein
Science
Sts-50
Surface
Experiment
space shuttle program
Space
Mission
Duration
Orbiter
Experiment
Extended
Flight
Sts-50
Growth
First
System
Crystal
earth
Shuttle
Mission
Apparatus
Convection
Tension
Drop
Physics
Protein
Study
System
Use
Fluid
international space station
Growth
System
Flight
Glovebox
Crystal
Convection
Tension
Protein
Science
Sts-50
Surface
Experiment
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For STS-50, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects STS-50 with Mission highlights. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
STS-50
Nodes47
Edges46
Triples105
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around STS-50 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Science, Mission highlights & Impacts with debris and micrometeoroids, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
