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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1994 (3:18 PM EST)

MISSION: STS-66 -- ATLAS-3/CRISTA-SPAS

LAUNCH DAY/FLIGHT DAY 1
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 189 sm
LOCATION: en orbit
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
LAUNCH DATE and TIME: Nov. 3 at 11:59:43.060 a.m. EST
KSC LANDING DATE and TIME: Nov. 14 at 7:45 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days/19 hours/46 minutes

	The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-66 
occurred today at 11:59:43 a.m. EST. The countdown was held for 
three minutes and 43 seconds at the T-5 minute mark as managers 
discussed the weather at the transoceanic abort landing sites.
	This was the 66th launch of the Space Shuttle and the 13th for 
the orbiter Atlantis. No significant technical issues were worked 
throughout the duration of the countdown.
	Post launch inspections of the pad reveal no unusual damage to 
the pad surface or the mobile launcher platform.
    The solid rocket booster retrieval ships have reached the 
spent boosters. Divers have recovered the parachutes and the 
ships will begin towing the boosters back to Port Canaveral later 
today.

    (Mission STS-66 status reports are issued daily by the 
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tx.) 

CREW: Commander Don McMonagle; Pilot Curtis Brown; and Mission 
Specialists Ellen Ochoa, Joseph Tanner, Jean-Francois Clervoy and 
Scott Parazynski.