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

STS-86 images

• VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
• LOCATION: Pad 39A
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 25 at about 10:34 p.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
• MIR DOCKING TIME: Sept. 27 at 5:30 p.m. EDT
• UNDOCKING TIME: Oct. 3 at 11:46 a.m. EDT
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Oct. 5 at about 6:56 p.m.
• MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes
• CREW: Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Parazynski, Titov, Chretien, Lawrence, Wolf (up), Foale (down)
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 160 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

NOTE: Operations continue on schedule for the launch of Atlantis next week. Ordnance connections and checks are complete and the space suits to be used by Parazynski and Titov during their planned space walk have been installed into the orbiter's airlock. These suits will be checked-out later today. Aft engine compartment close-outs will continue through tonight with aft door installation scheduled for midnight. Also, the orbiter's payload bay doors are scheduled to be closed for flight tonight.

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

• Payload bay doors closed for flight (Sept. 18)
• Aft compartment close-outs (Sept. 18)
• Begin countdown at T-43 hour mark (2 p.m. Sept. 22)
• Crew arrival at SLF (3:30 p.m. Sept.22)

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

• VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
• LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Nov. 19 at 2:18 p.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 5 at 6:51 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: Checkouts continue this week on the orbiter's water spray boilers. Installation of Columbia's main engines is slated to begin Sept. 23.

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

• Shuttle main engine installation begins (Sept. 23)
• Fuel cell checks (Sept. 26)

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