KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Tuesday, October 17, 2002 (4:00 p.m.) For the latest Shuttle status on the web visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm <http://www pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm>. Visit <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm> for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions. KSC press releases can be found at <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/release/release.htm>. The KSC home page can be found at <http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/>. MISSION STS-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - S1 Truss Segment VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE and TIME: Oct. 7, 2002 at 3:45:51 TARGET LANDING DATE and TIME: Oct. 18, 2002 at 11:46 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW: Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: The Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station yesterday and is making preparations to return to Earth tomorrow after a successful mission installing the S1 Truss Segment. Landing at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) is slated to occur on orbit 170 at mission elapsed time 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes. The deorbit burn will occur at about 10:36 a.m. EDT. A second KSC landing opportunity is also available on Oct. 18 at 1:21 p.m. EDT with a deorbit burn coming at 12:16 p.m. EDT. No landing opportunities are planned for the back-up landing location at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), Calif., on Friday. If managers must keep Atlantis in orbit an additional day, two landing opportunities are available at KSC on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 10:31 a.m. EDT and at 12:06 p.m. EDT. MISSION: STS-113 - 16th ISS Flight (11A) - P1 Truss Segment VEHICLE: ENDEAVOUR/OV-105 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 10, 2002 TARGET LAUNCH TIME: 10:30 p.m. (Nov. 9) - 2:30 a.m. (Nov. 10) 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 ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Space Shuttle Endeavour is at Launch Pad 39-A following its Oct. 12 rollout. The primary payload, P1 Truss, has been installed into the orbiter's payload bay and the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test is in work this week. Pad validations are complete. Preparation for propellant load scheduled for next week is currently in work. 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. Polishing and welding on the flow-liners is complete and final cleaning in work. Engine installation is scheduled to begin late Friday. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: The Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period for Discovery continues at KSC with wire inspections in the crew module set to continue this week. -- 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 .
