KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Sunday, June 2, 2002 (12:30 p.m.) NOTE: Visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm on the KSC Home Page for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions. MISSION: STS-111 - 14th ISS Flight (UF2) - MPLM VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 LAUNCH DATE: June 5, 2002 LAUNCH TIME: 4 - 8 p.m. EDT KSC LANDING DATE: June 17, 2002 MISSION DURATION: 12 days CREW: Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin; (ISS up) Korzun, Whitson, Treschev; (ISS down) Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: NASA managers today chose Wednesday, June 5, as the next opportunity to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on Mission STS-111/UF2 to the International Space Station. Mission managers met Sunday morning to assess the progress of changing a regulator in the left Orbital Maneuvering System pod aboard Endeavour. This gaseous nitrogen pressure regulator is the same component that showed pressure differentials during the launch count last Thursday. Because of the uniqueness of the change out and the work to build a test fixture required, launch of Endeavour on the STS-111/UF2 mission to the International Space Station has been moved to Wednesday between 4 and 8 p.m. Eastern time. A launch advisory will be issued at approximately 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday providing the preferred launch time for Wednesday. NASA Television coverage of the launch will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern. The long-range weather forecast for Wednesday shows some improvement in what has been seen over the last several days near the time of launch, but still indicates the chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms and rain showers. The four shuttle astronauts and three Expedition Five crewmembers spent the weekend relaxing and reviewing their flight plan to be executed once on orbit. Aboard the ISS, the Expedition Four crew was notified of the additional delay shortly after the meeting by Mission Control and took the news in stride. -- end -- ------------------------------------------------------------- For automatic email subscriptions to this KSC originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to mailto:ksc-news_release-subscribe@kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov. With no subject or message. The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an email addressed to mailto:ksc-news_release-unsubscribe@kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov . With no subject or message. or you can (un)subscribe on the World Wide Web at: http://kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov/ Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm .
