GO TO THE PREVIOUS SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORTMission managers gave the crew of Discovery the go for deorbit burn at about 6:50 a.m. to permit a landing at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility today. Landing occurred at 8:02 a.m. on runway 33, concluding its 9 day mission which featured the deployment of a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. Discovery had been scheduled to land yesterday at KSC but was waved-off due to low clouds and fog.GO TO THE NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1995 (8:58 AM EDT) MISSION: STS-70 -- TDRS-G Flight Day 10/LANDING DAY VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 13 at 9:41 a.m. EDT KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 23 at 8:02 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes
At about 11:30 a.m. today, Discovery will be towed to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 where post-flight deservicing will begin. Later, preparations will be made for Discovery to be ferried to Palmdale, Calif., where it will spend about 9 months undergoing standard refurbishment and modifications to support future flights to the international Space Station. Discovery is scheduled to be delivered to the Rockwell facility in Palmdale around the first of October and returned to KSC in July 1996. Discovery’s next flight is not scheduled to occur until early 1997, the second mission to re-visit the Hubble Space Telescope.
The crew for mission STS-70 are: Commander Tom Henricks, Pilot Kevin Kregel, and Mission Specialists Donald Thomas, Nancy Currie and Mary Ellen Weber.
STS-70 DISCOVERY LANDING STATISTICS SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1995 LANDED AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ON RUNWAY 33 UNOFFICIAL MISSION ELAPSED AND LANDING TIMES MET EDT MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN 8:22:20:05 8:02:00 A.M. NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN 8:22:20:16 8:02:11 A.M. WHEELS STOP 8:22:21:02 8:02:57 A.M. STS-70 TRAVELED - 3.7 MILLION STATUTE MILES LANDED ON ORBIT 143 24th KSC Landing 70th Space Shuttle mission*Landing was waved off yesterday due to fog and low visibility weather conditions in Florida. Today, flight controllers waved off the first opportunity to land in Florida and opted for better weather on the final option.