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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.

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“The Times”12 pages

  • 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 7
STS-75 QUICK LOOK FACTS
Launch Date/Site: February 22, 1996/KSC Launch Pad 39-B
Launch Time: 3:18 PM EST
Launch Window: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Orbiter: Columbia (OV-102), 19th flight
Orbit Altitude: 160 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Mission Duration: 13 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes
Landing Date: March 7, 1996
Landing Time: 7:32 AM EST
Primary Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Abort Landing Sites: Return to Launch Site - KSC
Transoceanic Abort Sites - Ben Guerir, Morocco
Moron, Spain
Abort-Once Around - Edwards AFB, CA
Crew: Andrew Allen, Commander (CDR)
Scott Horowitz, Pilot (PLT)
Jeff Hoffman, Mission Specialist 1 (MS 1)
Maurizio Cheli, Mission Specialist 2 (MS 2)
Claude Nicollier, Mission Specialist 3 (MS 3)
Franklin Chang-Diaz, Mission Specialist 4 (MS 4)
Umberto Guidoni, Payload Specialist 1 (PS 1)
Shifts: Red Team: Horowitz, Cheli, Guidoni
Blue Team: Nicollier, Chang-Diaz
White Team: Allen, Hoffman (joins Blue team after TSS)
EVA Crew (if needed): Franklin Chang-Diaz (EV 1), Claude Nicollier (EV 2)
Cargo Bay Payloads: Tethered Satellite System
USMP-3
OARE
In-Cabin Payloads: Middeck Glovebox
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