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 6:53 a.m. EDT
• MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 16 hours, 51 minutes
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: Inspections of the STS-94 solid rocket boosters began this morning and all segments are in good shape.

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 10:41 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour, 41 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 18 at 7:29 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: Discovery rolled over to the Vehicle Assembly Building today at about 10:45 a.m. to be mated to the external tank and solid rocket booster stack. Mating operations will continue this week with shuttle interface tests expected to conclude on Friday.

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

• Shuttle Interface Test begins (July 10)
• 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: Shuttle main engine installation was completed last week and close-outs are in work today. Functional testing of Atlantis' external tank umbilical doors are complete and engineers are evaluating a noise heard in the right hand door's power drive unit. Window polishing and modification work on the orbiter's body flap continue this week.

In the VAB, solid rocket booster stacking operations are underway with joint close-outs in work on the left-hand stack and preparation underway for stacking of the right-hand booster segments.

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: Leak checks on the main propulsion system are in work and servicing of Endeavour's freon coolant loop No. 2 continues. Replacement of window No. 6 is in work through Wednesday. Weight-saving modifications on the left and right-hand elevon coves continue.

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