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STS-75 Mission Specialist Maurizio Cheli of the European Space Agency is greeted by wife Marianne after he and six fellow crew members arrived at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. The second Shuttle flight of 1996 will be highlighted by the re-flight of the Italian Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1R). Liftoff is slated to occur during a two-and-a-half window opening at 3:18 p.m. EST, Feb. 22.