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Year
at a Glance |
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| NOTE |
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| 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
Landing
Delay
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| VEHICLE |
Discovery/OV-103 |
| LOCATION |
On
orbit |
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KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME |
Oct.11, 2000 at
7:17 p.m. EDT |
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KSC LANDING DATE/TIME |
Oct.
24, 2000 at about 3:28 p.m. EDT |
| MISSION
DURATION |
12
days, 20 hours and 11 minutes |
| CREW |
Duffy,
Melroy, Wakata, Chiao, Wisoff, Lopez-Alegria, McArthur |
| ORBITAL
ALTITUDE / INCLINATION |
177
nautical miles / 51.6 degrees |
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| Shuttle Processing |
Flight controllers in Houston, TX, waived off all Shuttle landing opportunities today because of unacceptable weather conditions both at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility and at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.
Conditions at the SLF today included winds from the northeast gusting up to 24 knots, low cloud ceilings and rain showers within 30 nautical miles.
Today's final landing opportunities were at EAFB, so flight controllers turned their attention to weather in that vicinity. Low cloud ceilings prevented a landing on the first Edwards opportunity. Though hopeful that conditions would improve, weather officials observed rain showers with in 30 nautical miles of runway 22 at EAFB on the final Edwards opportunity. With three landing opportunities currently considered viable on Tuesday, mission managers decided to keep Discovery's seven-member crew in space another day.
Forecasters expect low cloud ceilings, high cross winds and rain showers at KSC tomorrow, but conditions at EAFB are expected to improve. Mission managers will assess the following landing opportunities on Tuesday:
| SITE |
ORBIT |
DEORBIT BURN |
LANDING |
| KSC |
201 |
2:21 p.m. |
3:28 p.m. |
| EAFB |
202 |
3:52 p.m. |
4:59 p.m. |
| EAFB |
203 |
5:29 p.m. |
6:35 p.m. |
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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/ |
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