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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1994 (12:09 PM)


MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY-2
FLIGHT DAY 5

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 138 sm
LOCATION: On orbit
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
LAUNCH DATE and TIME: Sept. 30, 1994 at 7:16 a.m. EDT
KSC LANDING DATE and TIME: Oct. 10 at 11:58 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days/4 hours/42 minutes

	Initial post-flight assessments of the solid rocket boosters at
Hangar AF indicate no unexpected conditions and no anomalies.  Booster
disassembly inspections will continue today.

	(Mission STS-68 status reports are issued daily by the Johnson
Space Center, Houston, Tx.) 

CREW: Commander Michael Baker; Pilot Terry Wilcutt; and Mission Specialists
Steve Smith, Dan Bursch, Peter Wisoff and Thomas Jones.


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

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104                         ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 189 sm
LOCATION: VAB high bay 1                         INCLINATION: 57 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 3                       CREW SIZE: 6
APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: 11:56 a.m.                  LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour/6 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 14/7:42 a.m.  MISSION DURATION: 10 days/20 hours

IN WORK TODAY:
  Mate with external tank and solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly Building

WORK SCHEDULED:
  Remove and replace scratched outside pane of no. 8 window
  Shuttle interface test
  Roll out to pad 39B (Oct. 10)

WORK COMPLETED:
  Move orbiter to Vehicle Assembly Building (first motion occurred on Monday at 8:25 p.m.)
  Rotate orbiter to vertical position and lift to VAB high bay 3 


MISSION: STS-63 -- MIR RENDEZVOUS and SPACEHAB-3

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103                         ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 196 sm
LOCATION: OPF bay 2                               INCLINATION: 51.60 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: early February              CREW SIZE: 6
APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: very early morning           KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: TBD
LAUNCH WINDOW: 5 minutes                          MISSION DURATION: 8 days/4 hours

IN WORK TODAY:
  Open payload bay doors
  Structural checks and tests

WORK SCHEDULED:
  Forward reaction control system functional checks

WORK COMPLETED:
  Flight control frequency response test
  Access orbiter's aft engine compartment
  Remove ferry flight tailcone


MISSION: STS-73 -- UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY-2

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: OPF bay 1

NOTE: Columbia will be placed on the orbiter transporter tonight and be moved from 
OPF bay 1 to OPF bay 3 tomorrow to allow for open bay work in bay 1. On Friday  
Columbia will be transported to the Shuttle Landing Facility for a Saturday ferry flight 
departure to Palmdale, Calif., for the scheduled six-month orbiter maintenance down 
period (OMDP).  When Columbia returns to KSC early next year, processing will begin 
for mission STS-73 scheduled for launch in late summer 1995.