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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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“Mission Control”13 pages

  • p. 10 …Flight Day 14 Flight Control System Checkout Reaction Control System Hot-Fire USMP-3 Deactivation Cabin…
  • p. 14 …Once microgravity experiments are running, most will be remotely controlled, a mode of operation known as…
  • p. 15 …TSS originally was flown on the Space Shuttle STS-46 mission launched in July 1992. TSS…
  • p. 16 …They will use a series of interdependent experiments -- conducted with electron guns and tether current-control…
  • p. 17 …Because of the unique interaction between the payload and the Shuttle, Mission Control in Houston is…
  • p. 19 …Payloads also serves as the liaison between Mission Control and the science investigators at Marshall, where…
  • p. 20 …Dynamics Functional Objectives During the deploy of TSS, several tests will be conducted to explore control…
  • p. 22 …Operations Area of Marshall's Spacelab Mission Operations Control watch preliminary data, awaiting their turn as…
  • p. 24 …MEPHISTO flew on both previous USMP missions. Analyses of samples produced on orbit are being conducted…
  • p. 31 …Recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Single Mission Air Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service…
  • p. 32 …1988); F-15 Pilot, 22TFS, CINCUSAFE Trophy; Mission Ready in the F-15 Eagle at Bitburg…
  • p. 37 …His work at Draper was geared strongly toward the design and integration of control systems for…
  • p. 39 …mission by assisting the Science Team for on-orbit operations at the Payload Operations Control Center…
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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