February 9, 1996
KSC Release No. 18-96
Note to Editors/News Directors:
NASA MANAGERS SET FEBRUARY 22 AS LAUNCH DATE FOR 75TH SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
NASA managers today set February 22, 1996 as the official launch date for
Space Shuttle Columbia on Mission STS-75. The mission will be highlighted by a 12
1/2 mile deployment and retrieval of a tethered satellite that is designed to investigate
new sources of spacecraft power and ways to study Earth’s upper atmosphere. The
STS-75 mission also will see the third flight of the United States Microgravity Payload
which continues research efforts into development of new materials and processes that
could lead to a new generation of computers, electronics and metals.
Launch of Columbia on February 22 is planned for 3:18 p.m. EST from Kennedy
Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-B. The STS-75 mission is scheduled to last 13
days, 16 hours, 14 minutes. An on time launch on February 22 would produce a
landing at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility on March 7 at 7:32 a.m.
EST.
The STS-75 mission will be the 19th mission for Columbia and the 75th for the
Space Shuttle system.
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