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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.
“Low Earth orbit”5 pages
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 12 PAYLOAD AND VEHICLE WEIGHTS Pounds Orbiter (Columbia) empty and 3 SSMEs 160,328 Tethered Satellite System 1,486 TSS Support Equipment 10.653 USMP-3 Experiments and Support Equipment 5,351 Commercial Protein Crystal Growth 57 Middeck Glovebox Experiment 395 Detailed Test/Supplementary Objectives 129 Shuttle System at SRB Ignition 4,523,663 Orbiter Weight at Landing 229,031
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