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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 …on orbiting platforms such as the international Space Station. Deploying a tether towards Earth could place…
  • p. 15 …Tethers also may be used as antennas to transmit extremely low frequency signals to Earth. Such…
  • p. 16 …Orloff, 01/2001/Page 16 Earth's Charged-Particle Environment and the Tethered Satellite System TSS…
  • p. 17 …The Research on Orbital Plasma Electrodynamics experiment, by Dr. Nobie Stone of Marshall, will study the…
  • p. 26 …that may occur on orbit. When a fire starts on Earth, flames spread due to the…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 10
MISSION SUMMARY TIMELINE
Flight Day 1
Launch/Ascent
TSS Checkout and Activation
USMP-3 Activation.
Flight Day 2
TSS Pre-Deploy Checkout
USMP-3 Operations.
Flight Day 3
TSS Flyaway
USMP-3 Operations.
Flight Day 4
TSS Science Operations and Retrieval
USMP-3 Operations.
Flight Day 5
TSS Retrieval and Docking
TSS Post- Retrieval Safing
USMP-3 Operations.
Flight Day 6
Middeck Glovebox Setup.
Flight Day 7-12
USMP-3 Operations.
Flight Day 13
USMP-3 Operations
Crew News Conference.
Flight Day 14
Flight Control System Checkout
Reaction Control System Hot-Fire
USMP-3 Deactivation
Cabin Stow.
Flight Day 15
Deorbit Prep
Deorbit Burn
Entry
KSC Landing.

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