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

Index of STS-85 images

• VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
• LOCATION: Pad 39A
• 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: The Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) concluded successfully today at Pad 39A. The astronauts began boarding Discovery about 8:15 a.m. and left the flight deck shortly after the simulated T-0 at 11 a.m.

Yesterday, in addition to safety training, the crew inspected CRISTA-SPAS in Discovery's payload bay. Thermal conditioning of the CRISTA-SPAS telescopes is complete in preparation for servicing them with cryogenic helium next week.

The orbiter's potable water system is being sampled today and the inertial measurement units are to be calibrated tonight. Discovery's payload bay doors will be closed tonight in preparation for loading hypergolic propellants aboard the Space Shuttle on Thursday.

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

• Storable propellant loading (July 24)
• Flight Readiness Review (July 24)
• Begin orbiter aft engine compartment close-outs (July 28)
• Ordnance installation (July 30)
• CRISTA-SPAS cryogenic servicing (July 31)

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: A payload bay door hinge is being replaced today. This work will be followed by retest cycles of the payload bay doors. Potable water servicing is also being performed today. Mass Memory Unit #1 is being removed and replaced, and the thermal protection tiles for the forward reaction control system are being installed. The Shuttle's aft engine compartment and crew module close-outs continue in work. The final portion of the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) is scheduled for Saturday. In the VAB, external tank/SRB mate activities are scheduled for Thursday.

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

• External tank and solid rocket booster mate (July 24)
• Orbiter roll to Vehicle Assembly Building (August 13)

MISSION: STS-87 -- U.S. MICROGRAVITY PAYLOAD-4

• VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: November 19 at 2:46 p.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 5 at 7:19 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 15 days, 16 hours, 33 minutes
• CREW: Kregel, Lindsey, Scott, Chawla, Doi, Kadenyuk
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

NOTE: The payload bay doors are open and preparations to remove the MSL-1 Spacelab module are in work. The laboratory will be removed on Monday and returned to the Operations and Checkout Building. The tunnel adapter will be removed tomorrow. The draining of residual hypergolic fuels is scheduled for tonight. A routine functional test of the forward reaction control system is scheduled for later this week.

STS-87 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

• Remove Spacelab from payload bay (July 28)
• Remove main engines (July 31)

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

Index of STS-89 images

• 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: Hydraulic systems tests are in work through early next week. Work to remove the liquid oxygen 17-inch disconnect continues. Water spray boiler testing and hydraulic system servicing continue. The Ku-band system antenna will be installed tomorrow.

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