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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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  • p. 5 …NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, serving as Payload Commander and Mission Specialist-4, will be making…
  • p. 7 …Nicollier, Chang-Diaz White Team: Allen, Hoffman (joins Blue team after TSS) EVA Crew (if needed…
  • p. 13 …Diaz, Nicollier TSS Science Chang-Diaz Guidoni, Hoffman Nicollier USMP-3 Systems Cheli Chang-Diaz Middeck…
  • p. 30 …Chang-Diaz (front right) is payload commander. In the rear are (left to right) European Space…
  • p. 37 …Chang-Diaz (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born April 5, 1950, in San Jose…
  • p. 38 …Chang- Diaz became an astronaut in August 1981. While undergoing astronaut training he was also involved…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 11
STS-75 ORBITAL EVENTS SUMMARY
(Based on a Feb. 22, 1996 Launch)
Event MET Time of Day (EST
Launch 0/00:00 3:18 PM, Feb. 22
OMS-2 0/00:42 4:00 PM, Feb. 22
TSS Flyaway 2/00:19 3:37 PM, Feb. 24
TSS On-Station 2/06:00 9:18 PM, Feb. 24
TSS Retrieve-1 3/03:30 6:48 PM, Feb. 25
TSS Docking 3/22:27 1:45 PM, Feb. 26
Crew News Conference 11/16:00 7:18 AM, March 5
Deorbit Burn 13/15:17 6:35 AM, March 7
KSC Landing 13/16:14 7:32 AM, March 7

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