- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Pad 39A
- TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: February 11 at 3:56 a.m.
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 65 minutes
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/*TIME: February 21 at about 2:43 a.m.
- MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 22 hours, 47 minutes
- CREW: Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees
- *Change from previous status
- Load hypergolic propellants (Friday and Saturday)
- Retract Rotating Service Structure and auxiliary power unit hot fire (Sunday)
- Deliver payloads to pad (Monday)
- Extend Rotating Service Structure (Tuesday)
- Flight Readiness Review (Jan. 30)
- Payload interface verification test (Jan. 31)
- VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
- LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
- TARGET LAUNCH DATE/*TIME: April 3 at 2:01 p.m. EST
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/*TIME: April 19 at about 7:30 a.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 16 hours, 29 minutes
- CREW: Halsell, Still, Voss, Thomas, Gernhardt, Linteris, Crouch
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/28.45 degrees
- *Change from previous status
- Install Space Shuttle main engines (Jan. 27)
- Install Microgravity Science Laboratory into orbiter's payload bay (Jan. 28)
- Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters in VAB (Jan. 29)
- Roll to VAB (March 3)
- VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
- LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3
- OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/*TIME: May 15 at about 4:05 a.m. EDT
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/*TIME: May 24 at about 7:50 a.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes
- CREW: Precourt, Collins, Foale, Noriega, Lu, Clervoy, Kondakova
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 184 statute miles/51.6 degrees
- *Change from previous status
- Open payload bay doors (Monday)
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1997 (12:47 PM EST)
E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov
NOTE: The pad is closed today for scheduled operations to load hypergolic propellants into the orbiter's reaction control system. On Sunday, the Rotating Service Structure will be retracted away from the vehicle for a hot fire test of the three auxiliary power units Sunday evening. On Monday, the payloads will be delivered to the pad's payload change-out room.
STS-82 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
NOTE: The right hand orbital maneuvering system pod has been removed from the orbiter. Payload premate tests and installation of the Ku-band antenna are in work today. Wing-to-fuselage bolt torque checks are continuing. Stacking of the right hand solid rocket booster in the Vehicle Assembly Building is scheduled for completion this weekend.
STS-83 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
NOTE: Off-load of residual cryogenic reactants from the orbiter's power reactant storage and distribution system is complete. Access to the aft engine compartment is in work and the payload bay doors are scheduled to be opened on Monday.
STS-84 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):