KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Thursday, August 22, 2002 (3:00 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-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - BA, ITS S1 VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Oct. 2, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Oct. 13, 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: At a meeting this afternoon, mission managers moved Atlantis' launch date to no earlier than Oct. 2 to accommodate for repairs needed on the Crawler Transporters. Nominal processing continues with the completion of heat shield installation and the beginning of closeouts of the orbiter's aft compartment. Engineering evaluation continues on the cracks found in the bearings located in the JEL (jacking, equalization and leveling) cylinders on Crawler Transporter No. 2. Technicians have removed eight of the 16 cylinders to perform visual inspections of all 32 bearings on the crawler. Twenty-five bearings have been identified as good for crawler activities. The remaining bearings are scheduled to be manufactured and delivered by Labor Day weekend, in time to support the scheduled rollout for an Oct. 2 launch. 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, 2002 MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW: Wetherbee, Lockhart, 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. Technicians have completed all of the polishing of both the downstream and upstream Main Propulsion System flow liner slots on Endeavour. Welding of the cracks found in the liners is scheduled to begin today. Space Shuttle Main Engine installation is scheduled for early next week. MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 29, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Dec. 15, 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: Nominal processing has been completed in preparation for Columbia's research mission now scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 29. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: Sept. 1 has been identified as the date to begin Discovery's Orbiter Major Modification period at KSC. -- 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 .
