NASA Photo ID: STS75701087          File Name: 75701087.jpg 

 
 

Description: 
 STS-75 ONBOARD VIEW --- A medium close-up
   view, captured with a 70mm camera, shows the
   Tethered Satellite System (TSS) and part of its
   supportive boom device prior to deployment
   operations.  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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