STS-75 Flight Day 9
Channel: NASA STI Program
Date: 2013-01-25

On this ninth day of the STS-75 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Andrew Allen, Pilot Scott Horowitz, Payload Cmdr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni (Italy), and Mission Specialists Jeffrey Hoffman, Maurizio Cheli (ESA) and Claude Nicollier (ESA), are shown tracking the free-orbiting tethered satellite and performing various experiments from the United States Microgravity Payload-3 (USMP-3). An in-orbit interview with Allen, Cheli, and Guidoni by the Italian news media is shown. The astronauts answer a variety of questions concerning the loss of the tethered satellite, and the progress of the other mission experiments. Earth views include a sunset and horizon shots. March 1996