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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1996 (1:27 PM EST)

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


MISSION: STS-75 -- TETHERED SATELLITE-1R & USMP-3
Flight Day 13

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Orbit
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Feb. 22 at 3:18 p.m. EST
* TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: March 8 at about 7:18 a.m. EST
MISSION DURATION: 13 days, 16 hours
CREW SIZE: 7
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/28.45 degrees
* change from earlier status

NOTE: Mission managers have decided to extend Columbia’s mission 24
hours. Landing will now occur on Friday, March 8, at 7:18 a.m.

        Mission STS-75 status reports are issued daily from the
Johnson Space Center. Payload status reports are issued by the
Marshall Space Flight Center.

	The crew of mission STS-75 are: Commander Andy Allen; Pilot
Scott Horowitz; Mission Specialists Jeff Hoffman, Maurizo Cheli,
Claude Nicollier, and Franklin Chang-Diaz; and Payload Specialist
Umberto Guidoni.


MISSION: STS-76 -- 3rd MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: Pad 39B
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: March 21 at about 3:35 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 6 to 10 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: March 30 at about 8:05 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 4 hours
CREW SIZE: 6 up -- 5 down
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: The helium signature leak check of the main propulsion system
was successfully conducted yesterday. The Terminal Countdown
Demonstration Test is currently underway with the STS-76 crew. The
test will end with a simulated main engine cut-off at 11 a.m.
Wednesday.

KEY STS-76 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (Tuesday-Wednesday)
* Launch Readiness Review (Wednesday)
* Load hypergolic reactants (Thursday-Friday)
* Flight Readiness Review (March 11)


MISSION: STS-77 -- SPACEHAB-4 & SPARTAN 207

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 16 at 6:32 a.m.
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: May 26 at 7:09 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days
CREW SIZE: 6
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 176 statute miles/39 degrees

NOTE: Operations to remove and replace thrusters on the reaction
control system are finished. However, the bay has not been re-opened
as workers continue to prepare the system for normal operations. As a
result of these unexpected delays, installation of the Space Shuttle
main engines will not begin until this weekend. Solid rocket booster 
stacking operations continue in the Vehicle Assembly Building.

KEY STS-77 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Install drag chute (Wednesday)
* Install remote manipulator system (Friday)
* Install Space Shuttle main engines (Saturday-Sunday)