John F. Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Status Reports

February 14, 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-98 -- 7th ISS Flight (5A) - U.S. Laboratory

Vehicle	Atlantis/OV-104
Location	on orbit
KSC Launch Date/Time	Feb. 7, 2001 at 6:13:02 p.m. EST
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	Feb. 18, 2001 at about 12:52 p.m. EST
Launch Window	less than 5 minutes
Mission Duration	10 days, 18 hours and 39 minutes
Crew	Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Jones, Ivins
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (mission processing summary)

Shuttle Atlantis continues to be in excellent health on orbit. Solid rocket booster open assessment continues to go well. Workers are removing the booster aft skirts today and expect to remove the solid rocket motor nozzles tomorrow. The nozzles are scheduled for shipment to Utah Friday.

MISSION: STS-102 -- 8th ISS Flight (5A.1) - Leonardo MPLM

Vehicle	Discovery/OV-103
Location	Launch Pad 39B
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	March 8, 2001, at 6:45 a.m. EST
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	March 20, 2001, at 1:13 a.m. EST
Launch Window	less than 5 minutes
Mission Duration	11 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes
Crew	Wetherbee, Kelly, Thomas, Richards; (up) Voss, Helms, Usachev; (down) Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalev
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note

At Pad 39B, workers have completed launch pad validations. The STS-102 and Increment 2 crews continued Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities today. Tomorrow, they climb into Discovery's crew module and rehearse a simulated emergency egress. The astronauts are scheduled to leave KSC for Houston, Texas, tomorrow at about 1:15 p.m.

Shuttle main engine flight readiness testing begins tomorrow. Discovery's helium signature leak test occurs Monday, and orbiter prelaunch propellant loading begins Tuesday. The MPLM payload, "Leonardo", is scheduled to arrive at the pad Feb. 23 for installation into Discovery's payload bay.

Upcoming Milestones (dates are targets only)

Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test complete February 15

Prelaunch orbiter propellant load begins February 20

Payload arrives at Pad 39B February 23

MPLM installed into Discovery's payload bay February 26

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

Vehicle	Endeavour/OV-105
Location	Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 2
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	April 19, 2001, at 2:04 p.m. EDT
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	April 30, 2001, at 9:56 a.m. EDT
Mission Duration	11 days
Crew	Rominger, Ashby, Hadfield, Parazynski, Phillips, Guidoni, Lonchakov
Orbit Altitude and Inclination	173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note

Endeavour's three main engines have been installed. Today, power reactant storage and distribution system testing is in work. Technicians are conducting interface verification on the recently installed left-hand orbital maneuvering system pod. Payload premate testing is scheduled this week.

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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