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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle Endeavour thunders past the uppermost reaches of the Fixed Service Structure at Launch Pad 39B after an on-schedule liftoff at 10:23:00 a.m. EDT, Sept. 12. Primary payload for the planned seven-day mission STS-47 is the Spacelab-J science laboratory. Mission Commander is Robert L. 'Hoot' Gibson; the Pilot, Curtis L. Brown Jr.; Payload Commander, Mark C. Lee; Mission Specialists, N. Jan Davis and Jay Apt; Science Mission Specialist, Dr. Mae C. Jamison; and Payload Specialist Mamoru Mohri.