- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building
- 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
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
- 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
- Shuttle rolls to Pad 39B (Sept. 21)
- Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (Oct. 8-9)
- 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
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 5 - 10 minutes
- 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
- Integrated orbiter hydraulic testing (Sept. 21)
- Crew Equipment Interface Test (Sept. 25)
- 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: 47 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, SEPTEMBER 14, 1998 (5:01 PM EDT)  STS-95 -- SPACEHAB-SM, SPARTAN & HOST
NOTE: Over the weekend, workers performed weight and center of gravity tests on Space Shuttle Discovery before lowering it onto the orbiter transfer vehicle. At about 10 a.m. today, Discovery rolled out of KSC's Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2. The orbiter arrived in the Vehicle Assembly Building a short while later and was lifted from the orbiter transfer vehicle at about 4:30 p.m. Discovery will be soft mated to the external fuel tank at about 6 a.m. tomorrow. Hard mate connections will follow Tuesday and interface verification tests will be conducted prior to next Monday's rollout to Launch Pad 39B. STS-95 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):  STS-88 -- FIRST FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONUNITY CONNECTING MODULE NOTE: Workers completed electrical connections of Endeavour's auxiliary power converter unit. Shuttle main engine installation is complete and engine securing is in work. Replacement of radiator No. 2 is under way. The orbiter's radiators are being replaced by units outfitted with a new protective layer meant to reduce micro-meteorite impacts in flight. Functional tests on the robot arm continue and external airlock leak checks are in progress. STS-88 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):  STS-93 -- Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)
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