| VEHICLE |
Endeavour/OV-105 |
| LOCATION |
Shuttle
Landing Facility |
| OFFICIAL
KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME |
Nov.
30, 2000 at 10:06 p.m. EST |
| OFFICIAL KSC LANDING
DATE/TIME |
Dec.11,
2000 at 6:04 p.m. EST |
| MISSION
DURATION |
10
days, 19 hours and 58 minutes |
| CREW |
Jett,
Bloomfield, Tanner, Noriega, Garneau |
| ORBITAL
ALTITUDE and INCLINATION |
177
nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
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| Shuttle
Processing Note |
Space Shuttle Endeavour and the five-member STS-97 flight crew completed the 6th flight to the International Space Station today at 6:04 p.m. with a landing at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility.
Endeavour's main landing gear touched down on runway 15 at about 6:03:25 p.m. EST with a mission elapse time of 10 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes and 25 seconds. The orbiter's nose gear touched down at about 6:03:34 p.m. EST at a mission elapse time of 10 days, 19 hours, 15 minutes and 34 seconds. The Shuttle came to a complete stop at about 6:04:20 p.m. EST at 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes and 20 seconds. Following vehicle safing and preliminary offloading efforts, KSC workers will tow Endeavour to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2. The orbiter should be inside the bay by about midnight.
This landing marks the 16th night landing and 53rd KSC landing in Space Shuttle history. The flight crew will remain overnight at KSC and depart for Houston, Texas, tomorrow.
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MISSION:
STS-98 - 7th ISS Flight (5A) - U.S. Laboratory |
|
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| VEHICLE |
Atlantis/OV-104 |
| LOCATION |
Vehicle
Assembly Building high bay 3 |
| TARGET
KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME |
Jan.18,
2001 at 2:44 a.m. EST |
| TARGET KSC
LANDING DATE/TIME |
Jan.
28, 2001 at 11:15 p.m. EST |
| LAUNCH
WINDOW |
less
than 5 minutes |
| MISSION
DURATION |
11
days |
| CREW |
Cockrell,
Polansky, Curbeam, Jones, Ivins |
| ORBITAL
ALTITUDE and INCLINATION |
177
nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
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|
| Shuttle
Processing Note |
Over the weekend, Shuttle managers decided to postpone the rollout of Space Shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A. Atlantis will remain in VAB high bay 3 while Shuttle engineers evaluate an issue with solid rocket booster electrical cable connectors. The connectors are associated with ordnance devices that support solid rocket booster separation during ascent.
Routine post flight inspections of the STS-97 boosters revealed that a pyrotechnic device failed to fire during a successful SRB separation. The device is located at the aft, bottom separation link between the booster and external tank. The fully redundant secondary system fired as expected. Since this finding, engineers have exonerated the ordnance device itself and are currently focusing their evaluation on associated electrical cable connectors located in both SRB's external tank attachment (ETA) rings.
The STS-98 boosters are being inspected as part of the evaluation. Today, workers are gaining access to the left and right hand booster ETAs to remove their outer covers. Tomorrow, two crews will begin thorough inspection and X-ray analysis on the cable connectors inside the ETAs on the left and right hand boosters. Crews will be surveying the connectors for any damage or loss of integrity.
Depending on analysis results and engineering evaluation, Shuttle Atlantis is not expected to rollout to the launch pad any earlier than midweek. The impact to the remainder of the processing flow will be assessed later this week.
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|
MISSION:
STS-102 - 8th ISS Flight (5A.1) - Leonardo MPLM |
|
|
| VEHICLE |
Discovery/OV-103 |
| LOCATION |
Orbiter
Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1 |
| TARGET
KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME |
Feb.15,
2001 at 4:24 p.m. EST (under review) |
| TARGET KSC
LANDING DATE/TIME |
Feb.
26, 2001 at 11:44 a.m. EST |
| LAUNCH
WINDOW |
less
than 5 minutes |
| MISSION
DURATION |
11
days |
| CREW |
Weatherbee,
Kelly, Thomas, Richards; (up) Voss, Helms, Usachev; (down)
Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalev |
| ORBITAL
ALTITUDE and INCLINATION |
177
nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
|
|
| Shuttle
Processing Note |
Technicians have completed draining Discovery's orbital maneuvering system thruster manifolds. Over the weekend they will start replacing a total of 10 thrusters on the left and right-hand orbital maneuvering system pods. Workers are also conducting leak and functional tests on the orbiter's main propulsion system and three auxiliary power units.
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