KENNEDY SPACE CENTER <<...OLE_Obj...>> SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT Monday, Jan. 13, 2003 (11 a.m.) For the latest Shuttle status on the web visit <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm>. For the latest 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> 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-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102 TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Jan. 16, 2003 TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 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: The launch countdown began late last night for Shuttle Columbia's Spacehab microgravity research mission scheduled to launch this Thursday, Jan. 16. Work continues at Pad 39-A with preparations in work for loading the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the Power Reactant Storage and Distribution System. Due to the quantity and nature of research to be performed on this mission, technicians have begun preparations to load late stow payloads. Tomorrow will begin the 16-hour task of loading the late stow payloads and experiments into the Spacehab module. Mission managers met last night to discuss the status of the ongoing engineering analysis of a surface crack that was found on a 2.25-inch diameter metal ball associated with the Ball Strut Tie Rod Assembly (BSTRA) inside Discovery's 17-inch liquid oxygen line. No inspections were performed on Columbia. The results of the testing have given the Space Shuttle program enough confidence to begin the countdown, with the final launch rationale to be presented at the standard meeting held two days prior to launch. The STS-107 crew members arrived last night at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in preparations for their launch on Thursday. Weather forecasters predict a favorable outlook for a launch attempt on Thursday, with only a 5 percent chance of weather prohibiting launch. -- 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 .
