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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. 5 …The STS-75 mission will be the 19th mission for Columbia and the 75th for the…
  • p. 6 …A voice update of the television schedule is provided daily at noon Eastern time. Status Reports…
  • p. 14 …During this time, Columbia's position will be adjusted periodically to give USMP experiments the best…
  • p. 17 …Marshall will furnish real- time engineering support for the TSS-1R system components and tether dynamics…
  • p. 19 …sent in real-time to the instruments aboard the Shuttle. During the mission, teams of scientists…
  • p. 21 …The closing rate at the time the satellite is docked to the cradle at the end…
  • p. 22 …The effects of gravity on the orbiting spacecraft are roughly a million times less than experienced…
  • p. 23 …At controlled temperatures extremely near the critical temperature, the fluid will be a billion times more…
  • p. 24 …The images of dendrites growing in space will be viewed in near-real-time by scientists…
  • p. 25 …The facility provides power, air and particle filtration, light, data collection, real-time monitoring, and sensors…
  • p. 36 …concurrently participating part-time in research activities of the Geneva Observatory. At the end of 1976…
  • p. 38 …of the launch countdown. He has logged over 1,800 hours of flight time, including 1…
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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