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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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“earth lights”5 pages

  • p. 5 …Deploying a tether towards Earth could place movable science platforms in hard-to-study atmospheric zones…
  • p. 16 …Orloff, 01/2001/Page 16 Earth's Charged-Particle Environment and the Tethered Satellite System TSS…
  • p. 17 …Robert Estes of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, and the Observations at the Earth's…
  • p. 23 …Orloff, 01/2001/Page 23 Critical Fluid Light Scattering Experiment (Zeno) Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Gammon…
  • p. 27 …significantly higher quality than ever grown on Earth before. The CMC has developed over ten pieces…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 1
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
SPACE SHUTTLE
MISSION
STS-75 PRESS KIT
FEBRUARY 1996
TETHERED SATELLITE SYSTEM-1R (TSS-1R)
UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY PAYLOAD-3 (USMP-3)

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