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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1996  (11:36 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)

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Pad 39B
(new) TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: November 19 at 2:53 p.m. EST
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
(new) TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 5 at 7:37 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes
CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 219 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Following yesterday's scrub announcement of the Atlas
commercial rocket launch at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Shuttle
mission managers announced that launch of Columbia on mission STS-80
must also be delayed, as was previously understood.

	However, due to forecasts of extremely poor launch weather
this weekend, which primarily focuses on high winds, managers decided
to further delay Columbia's launch until more favorable weather is
likely. As a result, managers late yesterday announced that mission
STS-80 will target a new launch date of Tuesday, Nov. 19. The launch
window on Tuesday opens at 2:53 p.m. EST. To achieve this, launch
controllers have reset the countdown clock to the build-in hold point
at the T-19 hour mark. The clock will remain at T-19 hours until 1
a.m. Monday.

	Operations at the pad today will continue as scheduled with
the off-loading of extra cryogenics not necessary for this flight
from the extended duration orbiter pallet in the orbiter's payload
bay. Following this work, the orbiter mid-body umbilical unit will be
demated and retracted into the pad's Fixed Service Structure.

	For the remainder of the hold and through the weekend,
controllers in the firing room will closely monitor the orbiter's
systems while remaining in a launch configuration. Only limited work
will be performed at the pad until the countdown begins again Monday.

	The payload bay doors will remain closed as the Wake Shield
Facility and ORFEUS-SPAS payloads require no additional servicing.

	No official forecast for Tuesday's weather is available at this time.

	The flight crew will remain at KSC through the weekend
spending their time flying in the Shuttle Training Aircraft and
reviewing mission plans.

SUMMARY OF BUILT-IN HOLDS FOR STS-80

  T-TIME        LENGTH OF HOLD           HOLD BEGINS        HOLD ENDS
T-27 hours        4 hours               5:00 a.m. Wed.     9:00 a.m. Wed.
T-19 hours      104 hours (extended)    5:00 p.m. Wed.     1:00 a.m. Mon.
T-11 hours       15 hours, 33 minutes   9:00 a.m. Mon.    12:33 a.m. Tues.
T-6 hours         1 hour                5:33 a.m. Tues.    6:33 a.m. Tues.
T-3 hours         2 hours               9:33 a.m. Tues.   11:33 a.m. Tues.
T-20 minutes     10 minutes             2:13 p.m. Tues.    2:23 p.m. Tues.
T-9 minutes      10 minutes             2:34 p.m. Tues.    2:44 p.m. Tues.


CREW FOR MISSION STS-80

         Commander (CDR): Ken Cockrell
             Pilot (PLT): Kent Rominger
 Payload Commander (MS1): Tamara Jernigan
Mission Specialist (MS2): Thomas Jones
Mission Specialist (MS3): Story Musgrave


SUMMARY OF STS-80 LAUNCH DAY CREW ACTIVITIES

Tuesday, Nov. 19

   9:58 a.m.  Wake up
* 10:28 a.m.  Breakfast and crew photo
  10:58 a.m.  Weather briefing (CDR, PLT, MS2)
  10:58 a.m.  Don launch and entry suits (MS1, MS3)
  11:08 a.m.  Don launch and entry suits (CDR, PLT, MS2)
* 11:21 a.m.  Crew suiting photo
* 11:38 a.m.  Depart for launch pad 39B
* 12:08 p.m.  Arrive at white room and begin ingress
*  1:23 p.m.  Close crew hatch
*  2:53 p.m.  Launch

* Televised events (times may vary slightly)
All times Eastern
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