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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 35 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Maurizio Cheli ESA Astronaut BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born May 4, 1959, in Modena, Italy. His parents, Araldo and Eulalia Cheli, reside in Zocca (Modena), Italy. EDUCATION: Graduated from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1982. Studied geophysics at University of Rome in 1989. He received a master of science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Houston. MARITAL STATUS: Married to the former Marianne Merchez. Her parents, Marcel and Annie Merchez, reside in Brussels, Belgium. SPECIAL HONORS: Top graduate, Italian Air Force War College (1987); top graduate, Empire Test Pilot School, Boscombe Down, United Kingdom (1988). EXPERIENCE: After graduation from the Italian Air Force Academy, Cheli underwent pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in 1982-1983. Following fighter lead-in training at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico and initial training in the F-104G in Italy, he joined the 28th Squadron, 3rd Recce Wing in 1984. In 1987, he attended the Italian Air Force War College and in 1988 he graduated from the Empire Test Pilot's School, Boscombe Down, United Kingdom. While assigned to the Italian Air Force Flight Test Center in Pratica di Mare, Rome, he served as a Tornado and B-707 Tanker project pilot on a variety of test programs. His flight experience includes over 3,000 flying hours in over 50 different types of fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. In June 1992, he was selected by the European Space Agency for astronaut training. Cheli holds a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the Italian Air Force. NASA EXPERIENCE: Cheli reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992 and completed one year of training in August 1993. He is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews. His technical assignments to date include: flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); remote manipulator system/robotics; crew equipment.
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