John F. Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Status Reports

April 2, 2001


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Note

This is an orbiter processing report and does not necessarily reflect the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. Visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions.

MISSION: STS-100 -- 9th ISS Flight (6A) - Raffaello MPLM, SSRMS

Vehicle	Endeavour/OV-105
Location	Launch Pad 39A
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	April 19, 2001, at 2:41 p.m. EDT
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	April 30, 2001, at 9:35 a.m. EDT
Mission Duration	10 days, 18 hours and 54 minutes
Crew	Rominger, Ashby, Hadfield, Parazynski, Phillips, Guidoni, Lonchakov
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (orbiter processing notes)

Processing of Space Shuttle Endeavour continues on schedule at Launch Pad 39A. The flight crew has departed KSC following last week's Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, but they are expected to return this weekend for a payload bay familiarization walk-down that was delayed last week due to rain last week.

Engineers will conduct Endeavour's prelaunch propellant load early this week. After loading oxidizer into the orbiter's onboard storage tanks today, fuel loading will commence tomorrow morning. The MPLM payload arrives at the pad Thursday for installation into the payload bay on Saturday.

Shuttle mission managers will convene the Flight Readiness Review at KSC Thursday morning expecting to announce an official launch date for STS-100.

Upcoming Milestones (dates are targets only)

Orbiter prelaunch propellant loading begins	April 2
Flight Readiness Review	April 5
Payload arrives at the pad	April 5
Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts begin	April 9
Shuttle ordnance installation begins	April 10
Close payload bay doors for flight	April 10

MISSION: STS-104 -- 10th ISS Flight (7A) - Airlock

Vehicle	Atlantis/OV-104
Location	OPF bay 3
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	NET June 14, 4:15 p.m. EDT
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	June 25, 12:30 p.m. EDT
Mission Duration	11 days
Crew	Lindsey, Hobaugh, Kavandi, Gernhardt, Reilly
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (orbiter processing notes)

Technicians have completed deservicing work on freon coolant loop No. 2 and are proceeding with line replacement. Standard inspections of Atlantis' windows are in work today. Orbiter power reactant storage and distribution system testing continues, and drag chute installation occurs this week. Atlantis' left-hand orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pod will undergo a thruster manifold replacement this weekend.

MISSION: STS-105 -- 11th ISS Flight (7A.1) - Leonardo MPLM

Vehicle	Discovery/OV-103
Location	OPF bay 2
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	July 12, 2001, at 4:45 a.m. EDT
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	July 22, 2001, at 12:29 a.m. EDT
Mission Duration	10 days
Crew	Horowitz, Struckow, Barry, Forrester; (up) Culbertson, Dezhurow, Turin; (down) Voss, Helms, Usachev;
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (orbiter processing notes)

Removal of Discovery's three main engines is complete. Technicians begin offloading Discovery's residual hypergols tomorrow. Routine orbiter inspections continue on schedule and technicians continue to establish orbiter access.

MISSION: STS-109 -- HST Servicing Mission 3B

Vehicle	Columbia/OV-102
Location	OPF bay 1
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	November 19, 2001, under review
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	November 30, 2001, under review
Mission Duration	TBD
Crew	Altman, Carey, Grunsfeld, Currie, Newman, Linnehan, Massimino
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	308 nautical miles/28.5 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (orbiter processing notes)

Inspection of Columbia's main landing gear and avionics bays continues. Tomorrow, technicians will remove the orbiter's left-hand OMS pod simulator and begin right-hand pod removal Friday.

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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