STS-80
Report # 09 
November 23, 1996 6 a.m. CST 
 
  With both of their free-flying satellites deployed, Columbia's
astronauts today will focus on maintaining formation and working with
in-cabin microgravity experiments.

  Following a successful NC7 maneuver overnight, Columbia is 70 miles in
front of the ORFEUS-SPAS ultraviolet telescope and pulling away by
about 4 miles each orbit. The Shuttle is 18 miles ahead of the Wake
Shield Facility and separating by 1.5 miles each revolution. The
saucer-shaped satellite is about 53 miles ahead of ORFEUS-SPAS and the
two are moving 1 mile closer to each other each time they orbit the
planet.

  Overnight, the Shuttle's payload bay cameras provided television
pictures of the two satellites trailing Columbia.

  The Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet
Spectrometer, riding its Shuttle Pallet Satellite, continues to make
observations of stars and galaxies. Wake Shield science operations are
to begin about 8 a.m. CST today. Scientists from the University of
Houston's Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center spent the night preparing
their spacecraft for its first STS-80 foray into thin film
semiconductor growth.

  Commander Ken Cockrell, Pilot Kent Rominger and Mission Specialists
Tammy Jernigan, Tom Jones and Story Musgrave are scheduled to awaken
at 11:56 a.m. CST. Cockrell and Rominger will kick off the next
maneuver to maintain the proper distance from its deployed payloads
about 2:30 p.m.

  Later in the day, Jernigan and Rominger will work with the
Visualization in an Experimental Water Capillary Pumped Loop
(VIEW-CAPL) experiment, Musgrave will be interviewed by CBS News (at
5:41 p.m. CST) and Cockrell will check on the rodents being used to
study the role of calcium in blood pressure regulation.

  Columbia and its satellites continue to orbit the earth at an
altitude of 220 miles.

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