KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Thursday, October 3, 2002 (4:30 p.m.) For the latest Shuttle status on the web visit <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm> For the latest launch weather forecast visit <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/weatstat/forecast.htm> 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 Segment VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Oct. 7, 2002 NET TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: 2 - 6 p.m. EDT TARGET LANDING DATE: Oct. 18, 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: Hurricane Lili made landfall well east of Houston, Texas, providing the Johnson Space Center team the opportunity to begin preparing for the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday, Oct. 7. Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston was powered down Wednesday morning due to the projected path of Hurricane Lili threatening the Texas coast. After the treat of the storm passed, power-up and verification operations began in the MCC and will continue throughout the weekend. The MCC plans to "meet-up" with Kennedy Space Center during communication activation activities once the MCC is fully operational. Command and Control of the International Space Station was transferred to Moscow yesterday evening and will be transferred back to the MCC in Houston this evening. During the next few days at the Kennedy Space Center, the Launch Control Team will continue to monitor the Shuttle Atlantis and maintain its readiness for launch on Monday. At Launch Pad 39-B, the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants of Atlantis' power reactant and storage distribution system were drained yesterday and preparations are in work to re-load them on Saturday. The STS-112 crew stayed in Florida throughout this delay and spent their time relaxing, reviewing flight plans and practicing entry procedures in the Shuttle Training Aircraft. -- 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 .
