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STS-75 press kit
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This is NASA's press kit for Space Shuttle mission STS-75, dated February 1996 and later edited by Richard W. Orloff. It covers Columbia's planned 13-day flight carrying the Italian Tethered Satellite System reflight (TSS-1R) and the third United States Microgravity Payload. The kit sets out launch and landing plans, abort modes, the timeline, payload weights, crew duties, the tether's science objectives and investigators, and crew biographies. It does not mention any unidentified objects.
“The Times”12 pages
- p. 5 …The STS-75 mission will be the 19th mission for Columbia and the 75th for the…
- p. 6 …A voice update of the television
schedule is provided daily at noon Eastern time.
Status Reports…
- p. 14 …During this
time, Columbia's position will be adjusted periodically to give USMP experiments the best…
- p. 17 …Marshall will furnish real- time engineering
support for the TSS-1R system components and tether dynamics…
- p. 19 …sent in real-time to the instruments aboard the Shuttle. During the mission, teams of
scientists…
- p. 21 …The closing rate at the
time the satellite is docked to the cradle at the end…
- p. 22 …The
effects of gravity on the orbiting spacecraft are roughly a million times less than experienced…
- p. 23 …At controlled
temperatures extremely near the critical temperature, the fluid will be a billion times more…
- p. 24 …The images of dendrites
growing in space will be viewed in near-real-time by scientists…
- p. 25 …The
facility provides power, air and particle filtration, light, data collection, real-time monitoring, and sensors…
- p. 36 …concurrently participating part-time in research
activities of the Geneva Observatory. At the end of 1976…
- p. 38 …of the launch countdown. He has logged over 1,800 hours of flight time, including 1…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 1
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
SPACE SHUTTLE
MISSION
STS-75 PRESS KIT
FEBRUARY 1996
TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEM-1R (TSS-1R)
UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY PAYLOAD-3 (USMP-3)
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