MISSION: STS-94 -- Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (image)

Take a Virtual Tour of Columbia and the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 Payload!

Index of STS-83/STS-94 images

• VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
• LOCATION: on orbit
• OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 1 at 2:02 p.m. EDT (image)
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 17 at about 6:38 a.m. EDT
• MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 16 hours, 36 minutes
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Postlaunch inspections of pad 39A revealed only minor damage.

The solid rocket booster retrieval ships began recovery operations yesterday afternoon and are expected to return to Hangar AF with boosters in tow at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Initial inspections are scheduled to begin July 7.

The crew of Mission STS-94: Commander Jim Halsell; Pilot Susan Still; Mission Specialists Janice Voss, Michael Gernhardt and Donald Thomas; and Payload Specialists Roger Crouch and Greg Linteris.

MISSION: STS-85 -- CRISTA-SPAS-2 (image)

Index of STS-85 images

• VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: August 7 at 10:39 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour, 41 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 18 at 7:27 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 20 hours, 48 minutes
• CREW: Brown, Rominger, Davis, Curbeam, Robinson, Tryggvason
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/57 degrees

NOTE: Preparations are underway to roll Discovery to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday. Weight and center of gravity tests are complete and final inspections are in work. In the VAB, orbiter/external tank mating preparations are also in work.

STS-85 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

• Orbiter roll to VAB for mate to ET/SRB stack (July 7)
• Crista-Spas payload to pad 39A (July 10)
• Orbiter roll out to pad 39A (July 14)
• Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (July 22-23)

MISSION: STS-86 -- 7th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM

• VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: September 18 at about 1:39 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: September 28 at about 5:19 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes
• CREW: Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Parazynski, Titov, Chretien, Lawrence (up), Foale (down)
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Preparations are in work for main engine installation tomorrow. Ammonia servicing preparations are also in work. Water spray boiler servicing will conclude tomorrow and functional testing of Atlantis' external tank umbilical doors will begin tomorrow. Stronger replacement bolts were installed in the doors' linkage system after previous bolts were bent during door cycling activities.

In the VAB, solid rocket booster stacking operations are underway.

STS-86 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

• Space Shuttle main engine installation complete (July 7)
• Crew Equipment Interface Test (July 26)

MISSION: STS-89 -- 8th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM

• VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: January 15, 1998 at about 12:57 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: January 24, 1998 at about 5:20 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes
• CREW: Wilcutt, Edwards, Dunbar, Anderson, Reilly, Wolf (up), Lawrence (down)
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Servicing of Endeavour's freon coolant loop No. 2 continues through Thursday and radiator functional tests begin today. Tests on the main propulsion system and atmospheric revitalization control system are in work. Weight-saving modifications on the left and right-hand elevon coves, where the back of the orbiter's wings meet the elevons, are in work through next week.

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