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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1994 (11:24 AM EDT)


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

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 189 sm
LOCATION: Pad 39B
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 3
CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 11:56 a.m. EST
LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour/2 minutes
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 14/7:42 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days/20 hours

IN WORK TODAY:
  Pad closed to load hypergolic fuels

WORK COMPLETED:
  Flight Readiness Review
  Close payload bay doors
  Preparations to load hypergolic fuels
  Calibrate inertial measurement units
  Cavity purges and leak checks 
  ATLAS payload battery charge
  Payload interface verification tests
  Water spray boiler inspections

WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
  Open rotating service structure
  Hot fire three auxiliary power units
  Helium signature test (rescheduled for Sunday)
  Begin aft engine compartment close-outs (Monday)
  Install and check-out contingency space suits (Tuesday)
  Ordnance Installation (Wednesday)
  Pressurize hypergolic reactant tanks (Wednesday)
  Purge external tank (Thursday)


MISSION: STS-63 -- MIR RENDEZVOUS, SPARTAN 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:
  Preparations to off-load hypergolic fuels

WORK COMPLETED:
  Remove forward reaction control system
  Hydraulic operations
  Remove space shuttle main engines and heatshields

WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
  Install drag chute
  Ammonia servicing
  Functional checks of the orbital maneuvering system
  Off-load residual hypergolic fuels


MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY-2

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1
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

	The orbiter Endeavour, mated to the 747 Shuttle Carrier 
Aircraft, departed Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday to 
begin its ferry flight back to Kennedy Space Center. On 
Wednesday, Endeavour refueled at Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, 
Tx., and continued on to Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Tx., 
where it remained over night. On Thursday, Endeavour and the 747 
departed Dyess for Eglin Air Force Base in Florida's panhandle 
for refueling. Endeavour then completed the trip to Kennedy 
yesterday afternoon, touching down on the Shuttle Landing 
Facility at about 5 p.m. Endeavour was demated from the Shuttle 
Carrier Aircraft last night and towed to Orbiter Processing 
Facility bay 1 where it was spotted at about 7 a.m. today. 

	Next week work on Endeavour will include post-mission 
inspections, gaining access to the aft engine compartment and 
removing water spray boiler no. 3.