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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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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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