KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
      TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1999 (12:30 PM EDT)
      MISSION: STS-96 -- 2nd U.S. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT - SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE
      Flight Day 6

      STS-96 photos

      • VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
      • LOCATION: On orbit
      • OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 27, 1999 at 6:50 a.m. EDT
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: June 6, 1999 at 1:59 a.m. EDT
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 10 minutes
      • ISS DOCKING DATE: May 29, 1999 at 12:25 a.m. EDT
      • ISS UNDOCKING DATE: June 3, 1999 at 6:37 p.m. EDT
      • MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 20 hours and 37 minutes
      • CREW: Rominger, Husband, Ochoa, Jernigan, Barry, Payette, Tokarev
      • ADDITIONAL PAYLOADS: ICC, STARSHINE, SVF AND IVHM
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

      NOTE: Space Shuttle Discovery's onboard systems continue to perform well on orbit. Discovery has been docked with the International Space Station for four days and the crew has completed more than 30 percent of the supply transfer activities.

      Preliminary assessments of the solid rocket boosters reveal no significant damage. More detailed booster inspections are in work at Hangar AF today. Launch pad wash down efforts are complete and inspections revealed minimal damage. Evaluation of the SRB exhaust residue continues.

      MISSION: STS-93 -- Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF)

      STS-93 images

      • VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
      • LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 22, 1999 at 12:28 a.m. EDT (under review)
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 26, 1999 at 11:35 p.m. EDT (under review)
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 46 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours
      • CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

      NOTE: Columbia's weight and center of gravity testing is complete. Today workers are placing Columbia on the orbiter transporter system in preparation for tomorrow's transfer to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Managers plan to move Columbia to the VAB Wednesday at about 10 a.m.

      Chandra's Inertial Upper Stage arrived at KSC's Vertical Processing Facility this morning and mating to the X-ray observatory begins tomorrow. Following electrical and mechanical testing, the spacecraft is slated for transfer to Launch Pad 39B on June 21.

      STS-93 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

      • Columbia rolls to VAB for external tank mating operations (June 2 at about 10 a.m.)
      • Columbia rolls out to Pad 39B (June 7)
      • Chandra payload transferred to Pad 39B (June 21)
      MISSION: STS-99 -- SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM)
      • VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 2
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16, 1999 at 8:47 a.m. EDT
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 27, 1999 at 12:52 p.m. EDT
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 4 hours and 5 minutes
      • CREW: Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 126 nautical miles/57 degrees

      NOTE: Workers completed installation of Endeavour's window No. 6. Shuttle main engine installation efforts are under way and modifications to the main engine dome heat shields continue. Wireless video installation efforts proceed on schedule. Modifications to the freon coolant loop No. 2 isolation valve are in work. Checks on the auxiliary power unit exhaust duct and power reactant storage and distribution system are also in progress. Installation of Endeavour's right hand orbital maneuvering system pod begins later today.

      MISSION: STS-101 -- 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT - SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE/ICC
      • VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 3
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: December 2, 1999
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 13, 1999
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 5-10 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 10 days and 19 hours
      • CREW: Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Lu, Williams, Malenchenko, Morukov
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

      NOTE: Testing on Atlantis' flash evaporator system controller is complete. Wireless video modifications continue. Mass spectrometer leak checks on the orbiter's fuel cell power plant continue. Ammonia system leak and functional testing begins later today.

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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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