- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: On orbit
- OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 2 at 6:06:24 p.m. EDT
- OFFICIAL MIR DOCKING DATE/TIME: June 4 at about 12:58 p.m. EDT
- OFFICIAL MIR UNDOCKING DATE/TIME: June 8 at 12:01 p.m. EDT
- KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: June 12 at about 2 p.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: about 9 days, 19 hours
- CREW: Precourt, Gorie, Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin, Thomas (down)
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
- VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
- LOCATION: OPF bay 1
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Dec. 3 time TBD
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 14 time TBD
- MISSION DURATION: 11 days
- CREW: Cabana, Sturckow, Currie, Ross, Newman
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
- VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
- LOCATION: OPF bay 3
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 21, 1999 time TBD
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 26, 1999 time TBD
- 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, JUNE 11, 1998 (1:01 PM EDT) Flight Day 10  STS-91 -- 9TH AND FINAL MIR DOCKING, SPACEHAB-SM, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
NOTE: Discovery's seven-member flight crew is occupied today with preparations for tomorrow's Shuttle landing activities. At Hangar AF, inspections of the solid rocket boosters are complete and disassembly of the booster segments is under way. Removal of the aft skirts is complete and nozzle removal begins today. Weather forecasters expect favorable weather conditions on Friday to support both Shuttle landing opportunities at KSC. The first KSC opportunity is at 2 p.m. EDT and the second is at 3:36 p.m. Edwards Air Force Base, CA is not expected to support Friday's landing activities.  STS-88 -- FIRST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONUNITY (Node-1) NOTE: Endeavour's auxiliary power unit (APU) lubrication oil servicing and ammonia servicing are complete. Water spray boiler checks are in work and Shuttle main engine heat shield attach point rework continues. Next week, connections of the right-hand OMS pod crossfeed transfer lines begin.  STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)
NOTE: Testing of Columbia's gaseous hydrogen main propulsion system is complete. Removal of the Spacelab fluid lines concluded yesterday. Technicians are installing APUs No. 3 and No. 1 today. Standard torque checks of the wing-to-fuselage bolts continue. Efforts to replace portions of Columbia's flight deck floor are under way and inspections of the carbon dioxide removal system are scheduled through next week. For automatic e-mail subscriptions to this daily Shuttle status report or KSC-originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) type the words "subscribe shuttle-status", or "subscribe ksc-press-release" (do not use quotation marks). The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an e-mail address to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line), type (no quotes) "unsubscribe shuttle-status", or "unsubscribe ksc-press-release." Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm Information about the countdown and mission can be accessed electronically via the Internet at: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/ and at http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ |