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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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“Low Earth orbit”5 pages

  • 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 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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