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KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORTWednesday, September 25, 2002 (1:00 p.m.) NOTE: 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) – S1 Truss
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Oct. 2, 2002 NET TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: 2 – 6 p.m. EDT 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: Final preparations for
Atlantis’ lift-off to the International Space Station next week continue on
schedule. Final ordinance operations are complete. Launch countdown
preparations and aft closeouts continue, and the Extravehicular Mobility Units
are being installed today. Mission managers continue to monitor several
tropical storms though none are expected in the KSC vicinity in the near term
and no work is being held up as we proceed on schedule for launch. MISSION: STS-113 – 16th
ISS Flight (11A) – P1 Truss Segment VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 TARGET LAUNCH
DATE: Nov. 10, 2002 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Nov. 20, 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: Endeavour’s forward closeouts continue in work. The
functional retest on adjustments made on the Manipulator Positioning Mechanism
that is attached to the Remote Manipulator System was successful. Payload bay
doors have been closed in preparation for rollover and mate to the external
tank. MISSION STS-107 –SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH
MISSION VEHICLE – Columbia/OV-102 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Jan.
16, 2003 NET TARGET LANDING DATE: Feb. 1,
2003 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: Columbia continues processing in preparation
for its research mission scheduled for no earlier than Jan. 16. ORBITER MAJOR
MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: The Orbiter Major Modification
(OMM) period for Discovery is underway with
radiator removal and nose landing gear retraction. Wire inspections continue
and will be performed throughout the entire vehicle during the OMM. -- end -- |
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