- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. EST
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 7 at 12:04 p.m. EST
- MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 22 hours and 4 minutes
- CREW: Brown, Lindsey, Parazynski, Robinson, Duque, Makai, Glenn
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 310 nautical miles/28.45 degrees
- Tunnel adapter installation complete (Aug. 28)
- Payload premate test (Aug. 28)
- Crew Equipment Interface Test (Sept. 2)
- Payload bay door closure (Sept. 8)
- Orbiter roll over to VAB (Sept. 14)
- VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
- LOCATION: OPF bay 1
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Dec. 3 at 4:45 a.m. EST
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 14 at 11:14 p.m. EST
- MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 18 hours and 29 minutes
- CREW: Cabana, Sturckow, Currie, Ross, Newman, Krikalev
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
- Power converter unit interface verification test complete (Sept. 1)
- Shuttle main engine installation complete (Sept. 4)
- VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
- LOCATION: OPF bay 3
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 21, 1999 at 11:26 a.m. EST
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 26, 1999 at 10:33 a.m. EST
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 43 minutes
- MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes
- CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees
 THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1998 (3:44 PM EDT)  STS-95 -- SPACEHAB-SM, SPARTAN & HOST
NOTE: Securing Discovery's main engines and main propulsion system leak and functional tests are complete. Potable water servicing is in progress and preparations for tunnel adapter installation have resumed. Today, technicians are installing the main engine heat shields and proceeding with integrated vehicle health monitoring hardware installation in the aft and midbody compartments. This afternoon the Ku-band antenna will be deployed and undergo electronic retests. In high bay 1 of the Vehicle Assembly Building, mating of the external tank and solid rocket boosters was completed Tuesday. STS-95 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):  STS-88 -- FIRST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONUNITY connecting module NOTE: Installation of Endeavour's transfer tunnel adapter is complete. Strongbacks have been installed on the payload bay doors and the right hand radiators are deployed. Power converter unit electrical mates are in work today. Workers have resumed main engine heat shield work. Electrical system testing on Endeavour's orbiter docking system is slated through today. This afternoon freon coolant loop No. 2 will be deserviced. STS-88 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):  STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)
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