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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1994 (2:41 PM EDT)


MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY-2
FLIGHT DAY 6

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

	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:
  Main engine securing
  Remove and replace scratched outer pane of no. 8 window

WORK SCHEDULED:
  Shuttle interface test
  Roll out to pad 39B (early morning of Oct. 10)
  Pad validations

WORK COMPLETED:
  Mate with external tank and solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly Building
  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:
  Structural checks and tests
  Main engine inspections
  Tire and wheel assembly removal

WORK SCHEDULED:
  Forward reaction control system functional checks
  TACAN activation and test

WORK COMPLETED:
  Open payload bay doors
  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 is being placed on the orbiter transporter today and will be moved out 
to the Shuttle Landing Facility on Friday.  Columbia is scheduled 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.