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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 30
STS-75 CREWMEMBERS
STS075-S-002 -- With their major payload as the backdrop, members of the STS-75 crew pose for the
traditional crew portrait. The crew will deploy and work with the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1 R).
Seated at center are astronauts Scott J. Horowitz (left), pilot; and Andrew M. Allen, commander. Astronaut
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz (front right) is payload commander. In the rear are (left to right) European Space
Agency (ESA) astronaut Maurizio Cheli, mission specialist; payload specialist Umberto Guidoni of the
Italian Space Agency (ASI); Jeffrey A. Hoffman and ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialists.
No copyright is asserted for this photograph. If a recognizable person appears in the photo, use for
commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity. It may not be used to state or imply the
endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee of a commercial product, process or service, or used in
any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in
advertising and other commercial promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release.
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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