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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 6
MEDIA SERVICES INFORMATION
NASA Television Transmission
NASA television is available through the Spacenet-2 satellite system. Spacenet-2 is located on
Transponder 5, at 69 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz.
The schedule for television transmissions from the orbiter and for mission briefings will be available
during the mission at Kennedy Space Center, FL; Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; Dryden
Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA; Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; and NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC. The television schedule will be updated to reflect changes dictated by mission
operations.
Television schedules also may be obtained by calling COMSTOR at 713/483-5817. COMSTOR is a
computer data base service requiring the use of a telephone modem. A voice update of the television
schedule is provided daily at noon Eastern time.
Status Reports
Status reports on countdown and mission progress, on- orbit activities and landing operations will be
produced by the appropriate NASA newscenter.
Briefings
A mission press briefing schedule will be issued prior to launch. During the mission, status briefings by a
flight director or mission operations representative and when appropriate, representatives from the payload
team, will occur at least once each day. The updated NASA television schedule will indicate when mission
briefings are planned.
Internet Information
The NASA Headquarters Public Affairs Internet Home Page provides access to the STS-75 mission press
kit and status reports. The address for the Headquarters Public Affairs Home Page is:
http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html
Informational materials, such as status reports and TV schedules, also are available from an anonymous
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server at ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao. Users should log on with the user name
"anonymous" (no quotes), then enter their E-mail address as the password. Within the /pub/pao directory
there will be a "readme.txt" file explaining the directory structure.
Pre-launch status reports from KSC are found under ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/ksc, and mission
status reports can be found under ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/jsc. Daily TV schedules can be found
under ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/jsc/tvsked.
Access by CompuServe
Users with CompuServe accounts can access NASA press releases by typing "GO NASA" (no quotes) and
making a selection from the categories offered.

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