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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.

  • p. 2 …The Orbiter/satellite system is passing through the Earth's magnetic field which, like an electric…
  • p. 5 …on orbiting platforms such as the international Space Station. Deploying a tether towards Earth could place…
  • p. 9 …with the capability to allow one orbit of the Earth before landing at the Kennedy Space…
  • p. 15 …Also, a satellite could be moved up and down in orbit by releasing a tethered body…
  • p. 16 …Orloff, 01/2001/Page 16 Earth's Charged-Particle Environment and the Tethered Satellite System TSS…
  • p. 17 …The Research on Orbital Plasma Electrodynamics experiment, by Dr. Nobie Stone of Marshall, will study the…
  • p. 19 …The orbital dynamics will result in the Tethered Satellite initially being deployed upward but at an…
  • p. 22 …The effects of gravity on the orbiting spacecraft are roughly a million times less than experienced…
  • p. 23 …The orbital environment will permit measurements to be made within a few millionths of a degree…
  • p. 24 …Materials for the Study of Interesting Phenomena of Solidification on Earth and in Orbit (MEPHISTO) Principal…
  • p. 26 …that may occur on orbit. When a fire starts on Earth, flames spread due to the…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 18
TSS-1R Mission Management
TSS-1R is directed by Program Manager Tom Stuart, Office of Space Flight, and Science Payload Program
Manager Mike Calabrese, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. Responsible
for project management at Marshall are Mission Manager Robert McBrayer and Mission Scientist Dr.
Nobie Stone, who also serves as project scientist and co-chairman of the Investigator Working Group. The
chief engineer is Tony Lavoie.
At the Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy's TSS-1R contribution is directed by ASI Program Manager Dr.
Carlo Bonifazi, also the ASI Science Program Manager. Responsible for the Project Management of the
satellite and the Core Equipment are, respectively, Raffaele Battaglia and Francesco Svelto. Dr. Marino
Dobrowolny is ASI Mission Scientist, with his assistant Dr. Jean Sabbagh.

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