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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.

  • p. 17 …Carlo Bonifazi of the ASI, Rome, will control the electrical current flowing through the tether between…
  • p. 18 …At the Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy's TSS-1R contribution is directed by ASI Program…
  • p. 35 …Studied geophysics at University of Rome in 1989. He received a master of science in Aerospace…
  • p. 39 …Born August 18, 1954, in Rome, Italy. His parents, Mr. Pietro Guidoni and Giuseppina Cocco-Guidoni…
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 18
TSS-1R Mission Management
TSS-1R is directed by Program Manager Tom Stuart, Office of Space Flight, and Science Payload Program
Manager Mike Calabrese, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. Responsible
for project management at Marshall are Mission Manager Robert McBrayer and Mission Scientist Dr.
Nobie Stone, who also serves as project scientist and co-chairman of the Investigator Working Group. The
chief engineer is Tony Lavoie.
At the Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy's TSS-1R contribution is directed by ASI Program Manager Dr.
Carlo Bonifazi, also the ASI Science Program Manager. Responsible for the Project Management of the
satellite and the Core Equipment are, respectively, Raffaele Battaglia and Francesco Svelto. Dr. Marino
Dobrowolny is ASI Mission Scientist, with his assistant Dr. Jean Sabbagh.

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