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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. 5 …USMP science also could help produce stronger metal alloys sought by the aircraft and automobile industries…
  • p. 14 …a new generation of computers, electronics and metals. During the first two days in space, the…
  • p. 16 …into electrical energy as the electrically conducting metal strands in the tether's core pass through…
  • p. 23 …Microgravity research such as this will lead to manufacturing improvements in metals and alloys that display…
  • p. 24 …a substance that mimics the behavior of metals, but is transparent, thus allowing the dendrites to…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 13
CREW RESPONSIBILITIES
Payloads Prime Backup
Tethered Satellite System Hoffman, Guidoni Chang-Diaz, Nicollier
TSS Science Chang-Diaz Guidoni, Hoffman Nicollier
USMP-3 Systems Cheli Chang-Diaz
Middeck Glovebox Horowitz Chang-Diaz
Earth Observations Nicollier Horowitz
EVA (if needed) Chang-Diaz (EV 1) Nicollier (EV 2)
Intravehicular Crewmember Hoffman --------
TSS Rendezvous/Proximity Ops Allen Horowitz, Nicollier

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