KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Monday, October 21, 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-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. The payload bay doors were closed Thursday and the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test was complete on Friday. The helium signature leak test is in work today. Also in work today are the preparations for propellant loading which is scheduled to begin on Thursday. 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, welding and cleaning on the flow-liners are complete. Shuttle main engine installation began today. MISSION: STS-114 -- 17TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - MULTI-PURPOSE LOGISTICS MODULE VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: March 1, 2003 TARGET LANDING DATE: March 12, 2003 MISSION DURATION: 11 days SHUTTLE CREW: Collins, Kelly, Noguchi, Robinson ISS EXPEDITION CREW 7: Malenchenko, Moschenko, Lu ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Atlantis landed at KSC on Friday following a successful mission to install the S1 truss segment to the International Space Station. The orbiter's thermal protection system sustained a total of 107 hits of which 25 had a major dimension of 1-inch or larger, well within what is considered the normal range. Tire and brake inspections revealed nothing out of the ordinary. Post-flight inspections are in work to prepare Atlantis for its next mission to the International Space Station. Engineers continue to evaluate a problem that prevented the detonation of one of two sets of small explosives that release bolts that hold the Shuttle's solid rocket boosters to the launch platform and release ground connections to the external tank. This system did not operate as designed at liftoff of STS-112. A second redundant system fired normally and all pyrotechnic bolts were safely released. Engineers are checking systems on Atlantis, including the onboard Master Events Controller, wiring and connections related to the pyrotechnics as part of the investigation. Checks of related equipment on the Mobile Launcher Platform also are ongoing. The analysis has not yet reached a conclusion, although some ground equipment is being replaced as a precaution. ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 Shuttle Processing Note: The Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period for Discovery continues with wire inspections in the crew module 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 .
