The STS-75 mission comes to a close as the orbiter Columbia swoops
down on Runway 33 of Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.
Main gear touchdown occured at 8:58:21 a.m. EST, March 9, 1996.
During their 15 day, 17 hour, flight the seven-member crew conducted
microgravity research with the U.S. Microgravity Payload (USMP-3),
flying for the third time on the Shuttle. The other primary payload
was the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1R), flying as a reflight from
an earlier mission, but the satellite was lost when the tether broke
just short of its fully deployed length of nearly 13 miles. Leading
the STS-75 crew is Mission Commander Andrew M. Allen. The pilot Scott
J. "Doc" Horowitz. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz is the payload commander,
while Italian citizen Maurizio Cheli and Swiss citizen Claude
Nicollier, both representing the European Space Agency (ESA), and
U.S. astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman are assigned as mission specialists
on the flight. Umberto Guidoni, also of Italy, is a payload
specialist representing the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
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