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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.

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  • p. 16 …While ground-based scientists are limited to small- scale experiments, Earth's ionosphere offers TSS-1R…
  • p. 20 …will be performed when the satellite is 250 yards from Columbia, and will involve small firings…
  • p. 23 …This knowledge will be valuable in a wide variety of fields, including liquid crystals, superconductors and…
  • p. 26 …A crew member will place small solid fuel samples (flat paper and cellulose cylinders) into the…
  • p. 27 …The project, conceived in March 1993, brings together a small team of investigators from Costa Rica…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 11
STS-75 ORBITAL EVENTS SUMMARY
(Based on a Feb. 22, 1996 Launch)
Event MET Time of Day (EST
Launch 0/00:00 3:18 PM, Feb. 22
OMS-2 0/00:42 4:00 PM, Feb. 22
TSS Flyaway 2/00:19 3:37 PM, Feb. 24
TSS On-Station 2/06:00 9:18 PM, Feb. 24
TSS Retrieve-1 3/03:30 6:48 PM, Feb. 25
TSS Docking 3/22:27 1:45 PM, Feb. 26
Crew News Conference 11/16:00 7:18 AM, March 5
Deorbit Burn 13/15:17 6:35 AM, March 7
KSC Landing 13/16:14 7:32 AM, March 7

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