Flag from Space Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-75
Item Number: 144
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Online Close: May 29, 2006 5:00 PM EDT
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Description
As described by astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman: "I went through my memento box and found a Columbia flag we flew on STS-75. This was my fifth and final flight, the first flight of Scott Horowitz, now director of Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at
NASA HQ, and the flight where the two astronauts (myself and Franklin Chang-Diaz) became the first to fly 1000 hours on the Shuttle. I can
offer the flag mounted together with a photo taken of Columbia's
payload bay in orbit, inscribed with a signature with authentication
for the flag."
Special Instructions
STS-75 (February 22 to March 9, 1996) was a 16-day mission for space shuttle Columbia whose principal payloads were the reflight of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) and the third flight of the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-3). The TSS successfully demonstrated the ability of tethers to produce electricity. The TSS experiment produced a wealth of new information on the electrodynamics of tethers and plasma physics before the tether broke at 19.7 km, just shy of the 20.7 km goal. The crew also worked around the clock performing combustion experiments and research related to USMP-3 microgravity investigations.