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

STS-86 images

• VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
• LOCATION: Shuttle Landing Facility
• OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 25 at 10:34 p.m.
• OFFICIAL MIR DOCKING TIME: Sept. 27 at 3:58 p.m. EDT
• OFFICIAL UNDOCKING TIME: Oct. 3 at 1:28 p.m. EDT
• OFFICIAL KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Oct. 6 at 5:55 p.m. EDT
• MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes
• CREW: Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Parazynski, Titov, Chretien, Lawrence, Wolf (up), Foale (down)

NOTE: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on KSC's runway 15 at 5:55 p.m. EDT, bringing mission STS-86 to a successful conclusion. Mission managers opted to bring Atlantis and her crew home on KSC's first landing opportunity following a favorable weather forecast.

Today's landing marked the 40th KSC landing in Shuttle history and the 11th consecutive landing in Florida. The orbiter landed on orbit 170 having traveled 4.2 million statute miles. The STS-86 crew will spend the night at KSC and depart for Houston tomorrow afternoon. Atlantis is scheduled to be towed to OPF bay 3 at about 2 a.m. tomorrow.

MAIN GEAR TOUCHDOWN ----- 10:19:20:50 MET (5:55:09 p.m. EDT)

NOSE GEAR TOUCHDOWN ----- 10:19:21:00 MET (5:55:19 p.m. EDT)

WHEELS STOP -------------------- 10:19:22:12 MET (5:56:31 p.m. EDT)

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

STS-87 images

• VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Nov. 19 at 2:46 p.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 5 at about 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 Shuttle crew for STS-87 completed Crew Equipment Interface Test activities on Friday. Testing of the connectors on Columbia's fuel cell monitoring system is complete and fuel cell voltage tests are slated for Thursday. Close-outs continue in the midbody around-the-clock and the payload premate test is scheduled for tomorrow.

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

• Final payload bay door closure (Oct. 14)
• Orbiter roll over to VAB (Oct. 24)
• Orbiter roll out to Pad 39B (Oct. 29)

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

STS-89 images

• VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 15, 1998 at about 1:03 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 24, 1998 at about 4:47 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes
• CREW: Wilcutt, Edwards, Dunbar, Anderson, Reilly, Wolf (down), Sharipov
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Leak and functional checks of Endeavour's three auxiliary power units concluded over the weekend. The orbiter's forward reaction control system electrical mates are complete and functional tests began at noon today. The right-hand orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pod arrived in OPF bay 1 Saturday and preparations are under way for installation tomorrow.

In the midbody, orbiter docking system pyrotechnic checks were completed last week and docking mechanism checks are in work. With tunnel adapter installation complete, leak checks are now under way. Solid rocket booster stacking operations will begin today for STS-89 with the arrival of the left aft booster segment in the VAB.

STS-89 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

• Right-hand OMS pod installation (Oct. 7)
• Shuttle main engine installation begins (Oct. 14)
• Payload premate test (Oct. 20)

MISSION: STS-91 -- 9th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB-SM

• VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
• LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 28 at 8:33 p.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: June 7 at about 12:17 a.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes
• CREW: TBD
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Discovery remains in storage in VAB high bay 2 with the environmental control system purge equipment connected. The orbiter will remain in temporary storage until Oct. 27.

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