STS-75 Space Shuttle Columbia Earth Observation

View of the Planet Earth, showing the Himalayas, Red Basin, China and India, as seen from the Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-75, 22nd February to 9th March 1996. The primary objective of STS-75 was to deploy the Tethered Satellite System Reflight (TSS-1R), which was launched into orbit on a conducting tether.