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STS-66: tape 3
- Video Tape only
- Title STS-66: tape 3
- Released: 01/10/1994
- Language Natural Sound
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Footage of the STS-66 (Atlas 3) mission to study the Earth's atmosphere, launched on November 3rd 1994. Atlantis shuttle crew were as follows: Don McMonagle, commander; Curtis Brown, pilot; Ellen Ochoa, payload commander; Joe Tanner, mission specialist; ESA's Jean-Francois Clervoy, mission specialist; and Scott Parazynski, mission specialist.
The tape contains footage of the following scenes: an in-flight interview with Scott Parazynski who explains that the Atlas 3 mission's role is to study the chemical constituents of, and solar physics behind, the Earth's atmosphere; description of the solar spectrum experiment, Solspec, which measures change in solar energy output; a live link-up between the crew, Houston and ESA; a French interview with Clervoy; a crew press conference, involving the United States and European press (questions range from technical to personal, and are in English and French); flight deck footage- studying charts, taking photographs through windows; an ESA interview with Clervoy, includiNot available