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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. 3 …Space Center Houston, TX Mission Operations Astronauts 713/483-5111 Bruce Buckingham Kennedy Space Center, FL…
  • p. 5 …EST from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-B. The STS-75 mission is scheduled…
  • p. 6 …at Kennedy Space Center, FL; Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards…
  • p. 7 …Kennedy Space Center, Florida Abort Landing Sites: Return to Launch Site - KSC Transoceanic Abort Sites - Ben…
  • p. 9 …the Earth before landing at the Kennedy Space Center, FL. • Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) -- Loss of…
  • p. 31 …Kennedy Space Center; served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Johnson Space Center in…
  • p. 38 …the astronaut support team at the Kennedy Space Center. His duties included astronaut support during the…
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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