KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Thursday, August 8, 2002 (10:30 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-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - BA, ITS S1 VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Sept. 28, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Oct. 9, 2002 MISSION DURATION: 11 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. Demonstration welds continue prior to starting the work on the cracks in the orbiter's Main Propulsion System (MPS) liquid hydrogen flow liners. Welding repairs are scheduled to take place beginning early Friday morning and continue through Saturday. Polishing of the microscopic rough edges of the holes on the downstream flow liners for all three engines is complete. Technicians will continue to polish the upstream holes using the same procedure. Following successful welding repairs, engine installation is scheduled late next week. Fuel cell single cell voltage test is complete. MISSION: STS-113 - 16th ISS Flight (11A) - ITS, P1 VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 2, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Nov. 13 MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW: Wetherbee, Loria, Lopez-Alegria, Herrington; (ISS up) Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit; (ISS down) Korzun, Whitson, Treschev ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Processing continues for Endeavour's launch to the International Space Station. After repairs are completed on Atlantis' flow liners, welders will begin similar repairs on Endeavour. Fuel cell water line servicing and replacement of window No. 6 is in work. MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 29, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Dec. 15 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: Nominal processing has been completed in preparation for Columbia's research mission now scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 29. Due to the difference in material and number of slots on Columbia's flow liners, more engineering investigation is needed before a final repair option is selected. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery is awaiting the start of its Orbiter Major Modification 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 .
