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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1994 (1:20 PM EDT)


MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY-2
FLIGHT DAY 12/LANDING DAY

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 138 sm
LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
KSC LAUNCH DATE and TIME: Sept. 30, 1994 at 7:16 a.m. EDT
EDWARDS LANDING DATE and TIME: Oct. 11 at 1:02 p.m. EDT
MISSION ELAPSED TIME (MET): 11 days/5 hours/47 minutes/8 seconds

	Endeavour's two landing opportunities at Kennedy Space 
Center today were waved off due to clouds and the potential for 
rain in the area of the landing facility. Endeavour was then 
directed to land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Landing at 
Edwards occurred at 1:02 p.m. EDT today on concrete runway 22.

Main gear touchdown: -----1:02.09 p.m. EDT (MET: 11 days, 5 hrs., 46 mins., 9 sec.) 
Nose gear touchdown: ---- 1:02.21 p.m. EDT (MET: 11 days, 5 hrs., 46 mins., 21 sec.) 
Wheels stop: ------------ 1:03.08 p.m. EDT (MET: 11 days, 5 hrs., 47 mins., 8 sec.) 

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: Pad 39B
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 3
CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 11:56 a.m. EST
LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour/2 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 14/7:42 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days/20 hours

IN WORK TODAY:
  Pad validations
  Crew arrival for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (4:45 p.m. today)
  Install payload
  Main engine leak checks

WORK SCHEDULED:
  Crew emergency egress training
  T-0 for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (Friday)

WORK COMPLETED:
  Rotate service structure around vehicle
  Roll out to pad 39B
  Open payload bay doors
  Main engine securing


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:
  Main engine removal preparations
  Forward reaction control system functional checks
  Preparations to remove LITE and Spartan 201 payloads

WORK SCHEDULED:
  TACAN activation and test
  Remove LITE and Spartan 201 payloads
  Remove space shuttle main engines

WORK COMPLETED:
  Structural checks and tests
  Tire and wheel assembly removal
  Open payload bay doors
  Flight control frequency response test
  Deploy Ku-band antenna


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

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: En route to Palmdale, Calif.

NOTE: Columbia, riding atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 
remained on the ground at Ellington Field in Houston, Tx., last 
night after arriving from Huntsville, Ala., where it remained 
Saturday and Sunday nights. The orbiter/SCA departed Houston 
today at about 8:30 a.m. EDT en route to Biggs Army Airfield, El 
Paso, Tx., for refueling. The vehicle is scheduled to continue 
its journey to Palmdale with a 3 p.m. EDT estimated time of 
arrival in California. If fuel permits, the 747 SCA with Columbia 
on top, may make a flyby of Edwards Air Force Base with Endeavour 
still parked on the runway. At Palmdale, Columbia will undergo a 
scheduled six-month orbiter maintenance down period. When 
Columbia returns to KSC early next year, processing will begin 
for mission STS-73 scheduled for launch in late summer 1995.