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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1996 (11:55 AM EST) KSC Public Affairs Contact: Bruce Buckingham (fax 407-867-2692) E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov MISSION: STS-80 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY-3 (image) and ORFEUS-SPAS-2 (image) Flight Day 17 VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 LOCATION: in orbit LAUNCH DATE/TIME: November 19 at 2:55.47 p.m. EST (new) TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 6 at 8:02 a.m. EST (new) MISSION DURATION: 16 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 219 statute miles/28.45 degrees NOTE: Mission managers waved-off both KSC landing opportunities today due to forecast unacceptable cloud coverage at the Shuttle Landing Facility. Managers also waved the opportunity to land at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), CA, today, in favor of landing at KSC tomorrow. Tomorrow's forecast at KSC is generally favorable. The skies should clear tonight as a cold front passes through later today. Clear and dry weather is expected by tomorrow morning. Weather at EAFB is expected to be marginal with low clouds the main concern. Landing opportunities on Friday, Dec. 6, are: Landing Orbit Deorbit burn Landing KSC 264 6:59 a.m. 8:02 a.m. KSC 265 8:36 a.m. 9:39 a.m. EAFB 265 8:26 a.m. 9:30 a.m. EAFB 266 10:03 a.m. 11:07 a.m. MISSION: STS-81 -- 5th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM (image) VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 12, 1997 at about 4:17 a.m. (EST) LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 22, 1997 at about 7:52 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes CREW: Baker, Jett, Grunsfeld, Ivins, Wisoff, Linenger (up) Blaha (down) ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/51.6 degrees NOTE: Atlantis' payload doors are closed and efforts are underway to move the orbiter to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) late this afternoon. Once in the VAB, Atlantis will be mated to the external tank and solid rocket boosters. Rollout to Pad 39B is set for Dec. 10. KEY STS-81 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only): Orbiter roll to Vehicle Assembly Building (today) Deliver Spacehab to pad (Dec. 6) Roll out Shuttle Atlantis to Pad 39B (7 a.m. Dec. 10) Hot fire all three auxiliary power units (Dec. 11) Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (Dec. 16-17) MISSION: STS-82 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION-2 VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2 TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: February 13, 1997 at 2:59 a.m. LAUNCH WINDOW: 61 minutes TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: February 23, 1997 at 1:35 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 22 hours CREW: Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees NOTE: Hydraulic operations and testing of the main propulsion system continue today. The Crew Equipment Interface Test is set for this weekend. The payload bay doors are scheduled to be closed Dec. 16. Stacking of the solid rocket boosters for mission STS-82 is complete. The external tank will be mated to the boosters early next week in the Vehicle Assembly Building. KEY STS-82 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only): Crew Equipment Interface Test (Dec. 7) Mate external tank to solid rocket booster (Dec. 9) Close payload bay doors (Dec. 16)--end-- For automatic e-mail subscriptions to this daily Shuttle status report or KSC originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) type the words "subscribe shuttle-status", or "subscribe ksc-press-release" (do not use quotation marks). The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an e-mail address to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line), type (no quotes) "unsubscribe shuttle-status", or "unsubscribe ksc-press-release." Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm