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KENNEDY SPACE
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SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORTMonday, September 30, 2002 (11:30 a.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.
For the latest Shuttle status visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm
MISSION
STS-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) – S1 Truss Segment
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 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: Countdown for the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis began on
schedule over the weekend with no serious technical issues being addressed. Tonight,
liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants will be pumped into Atlantis’
onboard power reactant and storage distribution system. Atlantis remains
scheduled for an on time launch Wednesday, Oct. 2 between the hours of 2-6 p.m.
The exact launch time will be announced Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 1. The S-one truss is in the orbiter’s payload bay and the
payload bay doors are closed for flight. No additional prelaunch activities are
scheduled for the truss segment. The crew of mission STS-112 arrived at KSC Sunday
morning, Sept. 29. Today and tomorrow they will be reviewing their flight plans
and flying in the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA). The crew is commanded by Jeff
Ashby and piloted by Pam Melroy. Mission specialists include: David Wolf, Piers
Sellers, Sandra Magnus and Fyodor Yurchikhin. Air Force weather forecasters are currently
predicting a 40 percent chance of violating launch criteria on Wednesday. The
primary concerns are for possible local showers and thunderstorms. The National Hurricane Center predicts
Tropical Storm Lili will be a hurricane located in the Gulf of Mexico by
Wednesday. Lili poses no immediate threat to KSC. However, managers
are closely monitoring the track of the storm and will discuss contingency
plans if the storm tracks toward mission control in Houston, Tx. -- end -- |
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