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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1996  (11:51 AM EDT)
FLIGHT DAY 2

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


MISSION: STS-79 -- 4th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM (image)
All times are EDT

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 (image)
LOCATION: Orbit
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16 at 4:54:49 a.m. EDT
TARGET MIR DOCKING: Sept. 18 at about 11:13 p.m.
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 26 at about 8:12 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes
CREW: Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Blaha (up), Lucid (down), Apt, Walz (image)
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 196-245 statute miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Atlantis remains in orbit and is scheduled to dock with Mir
Wednesday evening at about 11:13 p.m.

	The auxiliary power unit issue that was discussed by mission
controllers yesterday will not prevent a full duration mission.
Atlantis is scheduled to remain in orbit for about 10 days and land
back at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 26 at about 8:12 a.m. Returning
with Atlantis will be Shannon Lucid, ending her record breaking
six-month stay on the Mir space station.

	The solid rocket booster retrieval ships have reported that
all booster components have been recovered and the boosters will be
returned to Hangar AF early this afternoon.

	The crew of mission STS-79 are: Commander Bill Readdy; Pilot
Terry Wilcutt; and Mission Specialists Jay Apt, Tom Akers, Carl Walz,
John Blaha (up), and Shannon Lucid (down).

        Mission status reports are issued daily by Johnson Space
Center, Houston, TX.


MISSION: STS-80 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY-3 and ORFEUS-SPAS-2 (image)

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: (no earlier than) Oct. 31 at 2:39 p.m. (EST)
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: (under review) Nov. 16 at 7:25 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 16 days
CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 218 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: The crew equipment interface test (CEIT) was completed last
weekend. This week, vehicle close-outs and external tank door
functional checks are in work.

KEY STS-80 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Final payload bay door closure (about Sept. 23)
Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters (Sept. 27)
Roll to Vehicle Assembly Building (about Oct. 5)

NOTE: MISSION STS-81, ATLANTIS, IS TARGETED FOR LAUNCH ON JAN. 12,
1997. SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS WILL BE ISSUED FOLLOWING MISSION
STS-79.


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: Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Installation of the Ku-band antenna is in work today.
Preparations are underway to install the forward reaction control
system next week.

KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Deliver forward reaction control system to OPF (Sept. 24)
Complete installation of the forward reaction control system (about Sept. 29)
Complete installation of main engines (about Oct. 1)
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