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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1996  (11:54 AM EDT)

KSC Public Affairs Contact: Bruce Buckingham (fax 407-867-2692)
E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov


MISSION: STS-78 -- LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY SPACELAB (LMS)
Flight Day 13

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Orbit
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 20 at 10:49 a.m. (EDT)
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 7 at about 8:38 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 16 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes
CREW SIZE: 7
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 statute miles/39 degrees

NOTE: Mission managers have officially approved the extension day for
mission STS-78 and targeted Columbia's KSC landing at about 8:38 a.m.
on July 7. A landing at this time will break by about seven hours the
Shuttle mission duration record currently held by Endeavour on
mission STS-67 last year.

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MISSION: STS-79 -- 4th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION:  Pad 39A
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 31 at about 11:29 p.m. (EDT)
LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 9 at about 8:05 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes
CREW SIZE: 6
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 196-245 statute miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: A hot fire of the no. 3 auxiliary power unit was successfully
conducted yesterday afternoon and the protective Rotating Service
Structure has now been moved into position around the vehicle. Today,
work includes launch pad validations and the main engine flight
readiness test.

KEY STS-79 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Helium signature leak checks (July 8)
Install Spacehab Double Module into orbiter (July 9)
STS-79 Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (July 18-19)
Close payload bay doors for flight (July 18)


MISSION: STS-82 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION - 2

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION:  Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: February 13, 1997
LAUNCH WINDOW: 61 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE: February 23, 1997
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 22 hours
CREW SIZE: 7
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Preparations have begun to remove the ferry flight equipment
from Discovery. The tail cone will be removed next week. Access to
aft, mid-body and crew module is continuing today.

KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Initial power-up (July 9)
Remove tail cone (July 9)
Open payload bay door (July 16)


PREPARATIONS FOR ORBITER MAINTENANCE DOWN PERIOD

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3

NOTE: The right hand orbital maneuvering system pod has been removed
as preparations continue to prepare Endeavour for its first Orbiter
Maintenance Down Period (OMDP).

	Endeavour's OMDP involves sending the orbiter to Palmdale,
CA, for about eight months of major modifications and structural
inspections. Delivery to Palmdale will occur around the first of
August. Once Endeavour returns to KSC, its next mission will be the
first International Space Station assembly Space Shuttle flight,
scheduled for launch from KSC in late 1997.

KEY PRE-OMDP OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Final payload bay closing (July 12)
Rollout for ferry flight to Palmdale, CA (July 29)
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