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Year
at a Glance |
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| NOTE |
This
is an orbiter processing report and does not reflect the
chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle Flights.
Visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm
on the KSC Home Page for the latest schedule of future
Shuttle missions.
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MISSION:
STS-92 - 5th ISS Flight (3A) - Z-1 Truss, PMA-3 |
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| VEHICLE |
Discovery/OV-103 |
| LOCATION |
Launch
Pad 39A |
| TARGET
KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME |
Oct.
5, 2000 at about 9:38 p.m. EDT |
| TARGET
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME |
Oct.
16, 2000 at about 4:50 p.m. |
| LAUNCH
WINDOW |
2
1/2 - 5 minutes |
| MISSION
DURATION |
11
days |
| CREW |
Duffy,
Melroy, Wakata, Chiao, Wisoff, Lopez-Alegria, McArthur |
| ORBITAL
ALTITUDE and INCLINATION |
177
nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
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| Note |
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The crew
for mission STS-92 arrived at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility last night at about
7 p.m., and the countdown for launch remains slated to begin at 12:01 a.m.
Tuesday at the T-43 hour mark.
At the pad, preparations for launch of Space
Shuttle Discovery continue on schedule. Aft compartment closeouts were
completed Saturday and airlock closeouts are now in work. The payload bay
doors are open today for the crew to conduct a final inspection of the payloads
now in the orbiter's payload bay. Also, flight crew equipment early stow
will conclude tonight. Loading of the onboard cryogenic reactants is
scheduled to commence Tuesday evening at about 8 p.m.
The weather forecast for Thursday's launch
attempt indicates some uncertainty in regards to the movement of Hurricane Keith
into the Gulf of Mexico. Heavy rainfall and cloudiness is expected to be
north of Cape Canaveral by Thursday evening. As a result, the primary
concern for Thursday's launch attempt will be shower4s and clouds associated
with Hurricane Keith. Forecasters are indicating a 40 percent chance of
weather prohibiting launch Thursday. The 24-hours scrub turnaround
forecast is also 40 percent.
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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-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shuttle/countdown/
and at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ |
