NASA Photo ID: STS75360021          File Name: 75360021.jpg 

 
 

Description: 
  The loose tether forms a faint diagonal line
   in this scene recorded on a later fly-by.  On
   February 25, 1996, the crew deployed the Tethered
   Satellite System (TSS), which later broke free.
   The seven member crew was launched aboard the
   Space Shuttle Columbia on February 22, 1996 and
   landed on March 9, 1996.  Crew members were
   Andrew M. Allen, mission commander; Scott J.
   Horowitz, pilot; Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, payload
   commander; and Maurizio Cheli, European Space
   Agency (ESA); Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Claude
   Nicollier, ESA, all mission specialists; along
   with payload specialist Umberto Guidioni of the
   Italian Space Agency (ASI).
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