KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Thursday, June 20, 2002 (4:30 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 17, 2002 at 1:00 p.m. EDT 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: At Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), Calif., preparation for Shuttle Endeavour's cross-country ferry flight proceeds on schedule. Workers will lift Endeavour into the Mate-Demate Device at Dryden Flight Research Center. The orbiter will be mated to NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, and depart from California enroute to Kennedy Space Center. MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 LAUNCH DATE: July 19, 2002 LAUNCH PERIOD: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. EDT 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 on schedule for the STS-107 microgravity research mission. Aft closeouts are complete and forward closeouts are in work. Final Orbiter power down is scheduled for late this evening in preparation for rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building. MISSION STS-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - BA, ITS S1 VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 LAUNCH DATE: August 22, 2002 KSC LANDING DATE: September 1, 2002 MISSION DURATION: 10 days CREW: Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Processing continues for Atlantis' scheduled launch to the International Space Station this August. During visual inspections, technicians noticed a small crack in the Main Propulsion System (MPS) LH2 flow liner leading to engine No. 1. After noticing the crack, tests were performed and two more cracks were identified on the same flow liner. Workers are performing further testing to determine the cause and if corrective action is required. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery was moved from the VAB back to the OPF this morning, where it will remain until the arrival of Endeavour at KSC. As part of an analysis of the flow liner cracks found on Atlantis, similar inspections will be performed on Discovery this weekend. -- 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 .
