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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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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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