KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Monday, June 17, 2002 (1:30 p.m.) NOTE: This is an orbiter processing report and does not necessarily reflect the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. 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/TIME: June 5, 2002 at 5:22:49 p.m. EDT KSC LANDING DATE: June 18, 2002 at 11:55 a.m. EDT 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: Flight control managers at Johnson Space Center decided to wave off both landing attempts today due to low clouds, showers and possible thunderstorms in the Kennedy Space Center vicinity that would violate weather constraints at time of landing. The first of two landing opportunities available for tomorrow is 11:55 a.m. EDT with deorbit burn occurring at 10:47 a.m. The second landing opportunity for tomorrow would be 1:31 p.m. EDT. The weather forecast for Tuesday indicates a continued chance for thunderstorms within a 30 mile radius of KSC. Edwards Air Force Base in Calif., will be called up as a backup landing site for Tuesday with the first opportunity occurring at 3:00 p.m. EDT. MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 LAUNCH DATE: July 19, 2002 KSC LANDING DATE: August 4, 2002 MISSION DURATION: 16 days CREW: Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/39 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Processing continues for the STS-107 microgravity research mission scheduled for July 19. The doors on the payload bay, containing the SPACEHAB/FREESTAR payload, were closed for flight on Friday and will not be reopened at the pad prior to launch. The Orbital Maneuvering System flight control checkout is complete. Final forward and aft closeouts are in work in preparation for rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building. -- 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 .
