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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.
“Mission Control”13 pages
Edited by Richard W. Orloff, 01/2001/Page 39 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Umberto Guidoni (Ph.D.) Italian Space Agency (ASI) Astronaut, (Payload Specialist) BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born August 18, 1954, in Rome, Italy. His parents, Mr. Pietro Guidoni and Giuseppina Cocco-Guidoni, reside in Rome, Italy. EDUCATION: Graduated from Classic Liceum "Gaio Lucilio" in Rome, Italy, in 1973; received his BS degree in physics and Ph.D. in Astrophysics (Summa Cum Laude) from University of Rome in 1978. MARITAL STATUS: Married to Mariarita Bartolacci of Milan, Italy. CHILDREN: Luca, February 21, 1992. ORGANIZATION: Member of the Italian Space Society (ISS). MILITARY STATUS: Reserve Officer of the Italian Air Force. EXPERIENCE: In 1983, as a staff scientist in the Solar Energy Division of the National Committee for Renewable Energy (ENEA), he was responsible for developing new techniques to characterize solar panels. In 1984, he became a permanent researcher of the Space Physics Institute (IFSI-CNR) and was involved as co- investigator in the Research on Electrodynamic Tether Effects (RETE) experiment, one of the payloads selected for the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1). From 1985 to 1988 he designed the Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and supervised the design and testing of the Data Processing Unit (DPU) for the RETE experiment. He also collaborated to the realization of a plasma chamber at IFSI, for laboratory simulations of electrodynamic tether phenomena and for characterization of plasma contactors in ionospheric environment. In 1988, Dr. Guidoni was appointed Project Scientist of RETE. In this capacity he was responsible for the integration of the experiment with the Tethered Satellite System. In 1989, he was selected by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to be one of the two Italian scientists to be trained as payload specialists for the TSS-1 mission and joined ASI as a member of the Astronaut Office. In 1991 he was relocated to the NASA Johnson Space Center to follow the training for STS-46/TSS-1 flight. In 1992, completing his training as Alternate Payload Specialist (APS), Dr. Guidoni supported the STS- 46/TSS-1 mission by assisting the Science Team for on-orbit operations at the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at the Johnson Space Center for the duration of the mission. Dr. Guidoni is currently assigned as payload specialist on the STS-75, Tethered Satellite System Reflight (TSS-1R) mission, scheduled for launch in February of 1996 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
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