NASA Photo ID: STS75711024          File Name: 75711024.jpg 

 
 

Description: 
 The Tethered
   Satellite System (TSS) is seen as it is reeled
   out during early stages of deployment
   operations.  The crew deployed the 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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