John F. Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Status Reports

April 11, 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
KSC Launch Date/Time	April 19, 2001, at 2:41 p.m. EDT
KSC Landing Date/Time	April 30, 2001, at 10:00 a.m. EDT
Mission Duration	10 days, 19 hours and 19 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)

At the launch pad, the MPLM "Raffaello" has been installed into Endeavour's payload bay and the payload bay doors are closed for flight. Workers have also completed installation and checkout of the crew's spacesuits.

Endeavour's aft engine compartment is undergoing final closeout work and the aft doors are scheduled to be installed this Friday. Shuttle ordnance installation is also in work through Thursday. Technicians will spend Thursday and Friday stowing flight crew equipment into the crew module. In the launch control center this week, engineers are completing final preparations to start the launch countdown on Monday, April 16 at 6 p.m.

The seven-member flight crew is scheduled depart Houston, Texas, at 7:30 a.m. April 16 and arrive at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at about 10:30 a.m. the same day.

Upcoming Milestones (dates are targets only)

Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts complete	April 12
Flight crew equipment early stow	April 12-13
Flight crew arrival at KSC	April 16 at about 10:30 a.m.
Launch countdown starts	April 16 at 6 p.m.

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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