- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 7 at 12:04 p.m. EDT
- 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
- 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
 MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1998 (1:24 PM EDT)  STS-95 -- SPACEHAB-SM, SPARTAN & HOST
NOTE: Discovery was towed into OPF bay 2 Friday at about 11 p.m. following an on time landing at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. Over the weekend, draining of the orbiter's power reactant storage and distribution system was completed. Postflight inspections of Discovery's thermal protection system revealed 198 debris hits to the orbiter's outer surface. On the orbiter's lower surface, only 44 hits measured 1-inch or greater. Payload bay door opening is slated for Thursday and payload removal follows on Friday. Technicians will remove the forward reaction control system on Thursday to accommodate planned thruster replacement work. Engineers will also begin evaluations of the troubled Ku-band system this week. Removal of the nozzles from the STS-91 solid rocket boosters is complete and shipment of the nozzles to Utah for final inspections occurs today.  STS-88 -- FIRST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONUNITY (Node-1) NOTE: Endeavour's water spray boiler checks continue. Technicians are conducting fit checks on the androgynous peripheral docking system to ensure compatibility with the International Space Station. Checks of a fuel cell relief valve panel are in work. Thursday, connections of the right-hand OMS pod crossfeed transfer lines begin and ammonia system servicing is scheduled this week.  STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)
NOTE: Efforts to replace portions of Columbia's flight deck floor are complete. Drag chute installation is under way and torque checks of the wing-to-fuselage bolts continue. Checks of the flash evaporator system are in work today. The payload bay doors will be opened later this week to support Ku-band antenna deployment. Work to install Columbia's auxiliary power units No. 3 and No. 1 has been rescheduled for this Friday. 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/ |