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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 8
Developmental Test Objectives/Detailed Supplementary Objectives
DTO 301D: Ascent Structural Capability Evaluation
DTO 307D: Entry Structural Capability
DTO 312: External Tank Thermal Protection System Performance
DTO 667: Portable In-Flight Landing Operations Trainer
DTO 805: Crosswind Landing Performance
DSO 331: Interaction of Shuttle Launch Entry Suits on Egress Locomotion
DSO 487: Immunological Assessment of Crewmembers
DSO 491: Characterization of Microbial Transfer Among Crewmembers
DSO 492: In-Flight Evaluation of a Portable Clinical Blood Analyzer
DSO 493: Monitoring Latent Virus Reactivation and Shedding in Astronauts
DSO 802: Educational Activities
DSO 901: Documentary Television
DSO 902: Documentary Motion Picture Photography
DSO 903: Documentary Still Photography

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