- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Launch Pad 39A
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 2 at about 6:10 p.m. EDT
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 7-10 minutes
- MIR DOCKING DATE/TIME: June 4 at about 12:59 p.m. EDT
- MIR UNDOCKING DATE/TIME: June 8 at about 12:01 p.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: June 12 at about 2:03 p.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: about 9 days, 19 hours, 53 minutes
- CREW: Precourt, Gorie, Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin, Thomas (down)
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
- AMS interface verification test (May 15)
- Tanking test of first super lightweight external tank (May 18)
- Flight Readiness Review (May 19)
- VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
- LOCATION: OPF bay 1
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: No earlier than Sept. 3 (under review)
- MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes
- 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: no earlier than Dec. 3 at 2:50 p.m.
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 8 at 1:57 p.m.
- 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
- Main engine heat shield removal (May 20)
- Shuttle main engine removal (May 21)
 THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1998 (11:28 AM EDT)  STS-91 -- 9TH AND FINAL MIR DOCKING, SPACEHAB-SM, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
NOTE: Close-outs of Discovery's aft compartment continue in preparation for Monday's tanking test of the first super lightweight external tank. Shuttle integrated voltage tests begin today. Yesterday, technicians opened the orbiter's payload bay doors and completed SPACEHAB tunnel leak checks. SPACEHAB interface verification testing (IVT) is under way and the AMS IVT is set for Friday. STS-91 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):  STS-88 -- FIRST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONNODE-1 (Unity) NOTE: Hydraulic pressurization tests of Endeavour's main engine thrust vector control and elevons are complete. Leak checks on the orbiter maneuvering system oxidizer valves are also complete. Hydraulic leak checks of the main landing gear struts are scheduled to begin today. Endeavour's radiators will be stowed in the orbiter's midbody today.  STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)
NOTE: Columbia's nose landing gear wheel and tire inspections are complete. Removal of the GAS canisters from the orbiter's middeck was completed yesterday. Today, preparations for hypergolic deservicing are in work. Workers will also remove the forward extension of the Spacelab transfer tunnel later today. STS-93 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only): 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/ |