KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Thursday, June 27, 2002 (11:00 a.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 19, 2002 at 1:58 p.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: At Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), Calif., forecasters continue to monitor the weather in preparation for Shuttle Endeavour's cross-country ferry flight. The orbiter has been mated to NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, and will depart from California enroute to Kennedy Space Center when weather allows. MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 LAUNCH DATE: TBD 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: After discovering small cracks on the LH2 Main Propulsion System (MPS) flow liners in two Orbiters, program managers decided to move forward with inspections on Columbia before clearing it for flight. As technicians plan for the inspections, preparations for Space Shuttle Main Engine heat shield removal are in work, followed by the removal of the three main engines. Inspections of the flow liners should begin next week. --more-- MISSION STS-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - BA, ITS S1 VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 LAUNCH DATE: August 22 (Under Review) 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' launch to the International Space Station and will be scheduled once the flow liner issue is resolved. Preparations for right-hand Orbital Maneuvering System Pod installation are in work. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: After technicians inspected Discovery for cracks in the MPS flow liners, it was moved yesterday from the Orbiter Processing Facility back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to await the start of its Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period that is scheduled to begin at the Kennedy Space Center late this summer. -- 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 .
