NASA Photo ID: S92-41073           File Name: 10064815.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 07/09/92
  Title: STS-46 Atlantis, OV-104, Tethered Satellite System (TSS) processing at KSC
  Description:
  STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Tethered Satellite System (TSS)
  processing conducted in the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Operations and 
  Checkout (O&C) Building high bay. Clean-suited technicians, wearing
  Aeritalia  jackets, check TSS-1 equipment during preflight processing
  activities.   Aeritalia built the research satellite under contract to
  government space  agency (ASI).  A joint endeavour between Italy and the
  United States, the TSS  experiments will be conducted while the spacecraft
  is positioned some 12  miles above the orbiter.  View provided by KSC with
  alternate KSC number  KSC-91PC-1829.             
  
  Subject terms:
  CHECKOUT                                
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  SPACECRAFT MAINTENANCE                  
  STS-46                                  
  TETHERED SATELLITES                     
  

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