KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
      TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1998 (11:37 AM EST)
      Flight Day 6

      Launch Viewing Information
      MISSION: STS-95 -- SPACEHAB-SM, SPARTAN & HOST

      STS-95 images
      STS-95 Press Kit

      • VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
      • LOCATION: On Orbit
      • OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 29 at 2:19:34 p.m. EST
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 7 at about 11:49 a.m. EST
      • MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes
      • CREW: Brown, Lindsey, Parazynski, Robinson, Duque, Mukai, Glenn
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 300 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

      NOTE: Having passed the halfway mark on this flight, Shuttle Discovery continues to perform very well on orbit. Evaluations of Discovery's drag chute door continue and preliminary reports indicate that the drag chute remains inside its housing in the orbiter's aft compartment. Mission managers do not currently plan to deploy the chute during Discovery's landing operations on Saturday. At Hangar AF, inspections of the STS-95 solid rocket boosters continue on schedule.

      MISSION: STS-88 -- 1ST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
      UNITY CONNECTING MODULE

      STS-88 images

      • VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
      • LOCATION: Launch Pad 39A
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Dec. 3 at about 3:55 a.m. EST
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 14 at about 10:19 p.m. EST
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 5 - 10 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 18 hours
      • CREW: Cabana, Sturckow, Currie, Ross, Newman, Krikalev
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

      NOTE: At Launch Pad 39A, Endeavour's helium signature leak tests are in work today. Gaseous nitrogen servicing of the orbiter's water spray boiler No. 3 and main engine testing also occur this week. Endeavour's payload bay doors are open and payload testing is in work this week. The Unity connecting module will be installed in the orbiter's cargo bay Nov. 13 and functional testing of Unity's pressurized mating adapters No. 1 and No. 2 are scheduled today.

      At about 6:30 p.m. today, the STS-88 flight crew is slated to arrive at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility to participate in this week's Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities. The crew will be briefed on orbiter and payload operations while at KSC. They will practice emergency egress activities Thursday and conduct a launch day dress rehearsal on Friday.

      STS-88 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

      • Flight Crew arrival at KSC (Nov. 3 at about 6:30 p.m.)
      • Unity payload interface verification testing (Nov. 9)
      • Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (Nov. 5 and 6)
      • Unity installed inside orbiter payload bay (Nov. 13)
      MISSION: STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)

      STS-93 images

      • VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 3
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: no earlier than March 18, time TBD
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: no earlier than March 23, time TBD
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 47 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 5 days
      • CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

      NOTE: Installation of Columbia's main engines is complete and engine securing is in work. Potable water servicing concluded yesterday. Orbiter landing gear functional and nose wheel steering checks are under way. Fuel cell verifications are also in progress. Preparations for the structural modal test continue. Solid rocket booster stacking operations continue in the Vehicle Assembly Building.

      MISSION: STS-101 -- 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
      SPACEHAB-DM/ICC
      • VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 2
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: August 5, 1999
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 15, 1999
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 10 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 10 days
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

      NOTE: Work on Atlantis' aft compartment power control assembly is complete. Evaluations of the orbiter's flash evaporator system (FES) are also complete and the FES controller may need to be replaced. Leak checks on the external airlock are also in work.

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      Author: Joel Wells / NASA Public Affairs
      Curator: Kay Grinter (kay.grinter-1@ksc.nasa.gov) / Information Dynamics, Inc.
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