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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1995 (12:13 PM EDT)

MISSION: STS-71 -- 1st MIR DOCKING
FLIGHT DAY 3

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: Orbit
LAUNCH DATE and TIME: June 27 at 3:32 p.m. EDT
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 7 at 10:56 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes
CREW SIZE: 7 up, 8 down
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 196-245 statute miles/51.60 degrees

	The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully docked with the
Russian Space Station Mir today. Undocking will occur on July 4 and
Atlantis will land at KSC on July 7.
	The booster recovery ships have returned to Port Canaveral
with the SRB’s in tow and will be arriving at Hangar AF this
afternoon.
	Mission STS-71 status reports will be issued daily by the
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tx.

The crew for mission STS-71 are: Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson;
Pilot Charles Precourt; Mission Specialists Ellen Baker, Greg
Harbaugh and Bonnie Dunbar; Mir 19 Commander Anatoly Solovyev; Mir 19
Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin; Mir 18 Commander Vladimir Dezhurov;
Mir 18 Flight Engineer Gennady Strekalov; and Mir 18
Cosmonaut-Researcher Norm Thagard.


MISSION: STS-70 -- TDRS-G

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION: Pad 39-B
LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 13 at 9:41 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 21 at 7:51 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 7 days, 22 hours
CREW SIZE: 5
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/28.45 degrees

IN WORK TODAY:
* Aft engine compartment close-outs

WORK COMPLETED:
* Main engine flight readiness test


KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES FOR STS-70 (dates are target only):
* Ordnance and hypergolic pressurization operations (July 6)
* Close payload bay doors for flight (July 10)
* Countdown begins (10 a.m. July 10)
* Crew arrival for launch (July 10)


MISSION: STS-69 -- WSF-2 & SPARTAN 201-03

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building Bay 1
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 30 at 10:40 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 10 at 7:10 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 20 hours
CREW SIZE: 5
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 230 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Endeavour is mated with the external tank. Hard mate occurred
at about 6 a.m. today

KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Move payload to pad 39A (July 1)
* Roll orbiter to pad 39A (late night of July 5)
* Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (July 19-20)


MISSION: STS-73 -- U.S. MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY-2

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 21 at 10:37 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Oct. 7 at 8:31 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 16 days
CREW SIZE: 7
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 172 statute miles/39 degrees

NOTE: The orbiter/payload premate test is in work today.