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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1996  (1:55 PM EDT)
FLIGHT DAY 3

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 KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16 at 4:54:49 a.m. EDT
TARGET MIR DOCKING: Sept. 18 at about 11:13 p.m.
TARGET MIR UNDOCKING: Sept. 23 at about 9:31 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
tonight at about 11:13 p.m. 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 returned with
the spent boosters to Hangar AF. Open assessments will be conducted
later today.

	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: Nov. 8 at about 2:30 p.m. (EST)
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 24 at about 7:15 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 16 days
CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 218 statute miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Managers met today and decided on Nov. 8 as the new target
launch date for STS-80. Vehicle close-outs and remote manipulator
system functional checks are in work today. The payload bay doors are
expected to be closed for flight next week.

KEY STS-80 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Final payload bay door closure (about Sept. 23)
Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters (Oct. 2)
Roll to Vehicle Assembly Building (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 continues in work today.
Preparations are also underway to install the forward reaction
control system next week.

KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
Begin installation of forward reaction control system (Sept. 24)
Complete installation of main engines (about Oct. 10)
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