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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1995 (1:19 PM EST)


MISSION: STS-73 -- U.S. MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY-2
Flight Day 17--LANDING DAY

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 20 at 9:53 a.m. (EDT)
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 5 at 6:45 a.m. (EST)
MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes
CREW SIZE: 7
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 172 statute miles/39 degrees

NOTE:  Mission managers gave the crew of Columbia the go for deorbit
burn to occur at about 5:46 a.m. to set the vehicle on course for a
landing at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility today.
Landing of Columbia occurred on the first opportunity at 6:45 a.m. on
runway 33, concluding its 16-day mission which featured the United
States Microgravity Laboratory-2 (USML-2) payload.

	About 2 hours, 30 minutes after touchdown, payload handlers
began removing time critical experiments from the spacelab in the
orbiter’s payload bay. At about 2 p.m. today, Columbia will be towed
to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2 where post-flight deservicing
will begin and preparations will be made for Columbia’s next mission,
STS-75, scheduled for launch in February 1996.

	Preliminary post-landing inspections of Columbia reveal the
tires and brakes in good condition. Tile damage will be assessed
today and tomorrow.

	Columbia landed on orbit 256. Touchdown times are as follows:

				     MET            EST
MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN              15:21:52.21	6:45.21 a.m.
NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN              15:21:52.35	6:45.35 a.m.
WHEELS STOP                      15:21:53.16    6:46.16 a.m.

	Columbia traveled 6.6 million statute miles on mission
STS-73. This was the 26th KSC landing in the history of the Shuttle
program. STS-73 was the second longest Shuttle flight to date.
(STS-67, launched on March 2, 1995, was the longest flight at MET
16:15:09.46.)

	The STS-73 crew are: Commander Ken Bowersox; Pilot Kent
Rominger; Mission Specialists Catherine Coleman, Michael
Lopez-Alegria and Kathryn Thornton; and Payload Specialists Fred
Leslie and Albert Sacco.


MISSION: STS-74 -- 2nd MIR DOCKING (Docking Module)

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: Pad 39A
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Nov. 11 at 7:56 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 6 minutes, 57 seconds
TARGET MIR DOCKING DATE/TIME: Nov. 14 at about 2:20 a.m.
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 19 at about 1:28 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 5 hours
CREW SIZE: 5
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 196-245 statute miles/51.6 degrees

KEY STS-74 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Pressurize hypergolic system (Monday)
* Complete ordnance installation (Tuesday)
* Launch countdown begins (7 a.m. Nov. 8)
* Crew arrival (11 a.m. Nov. 8)

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