John F. Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Status Reports

April 22, 2002


2002 Year at a Glance	Status Reports	March Status Reports

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-111 -- 14th ISS Flight (UF2) - MPLM

Vehicle	Endeavour/OV-105
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	May 30, 2002
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	June 11, 2002
Mission Duration	11 days
Crew	Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin; (ISS-5 up) Korzun, Whitson, Treschev; (ISS-4 down) Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz
Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination	122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (previous notes)

Shuttle Endeavour passed a major processing milestone today when it rolled out from its bay to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for space vehicle mate. Endeavour rolled out from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) shortly before 10 a.m. this morning.

Endeavour will be mated to the External Tank/Solid Rocket Boosters atop the Mobile Launcher Platform tomorrow and the Shuttle Interface Test will be conducted to verify space vehicle systems.

The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module has been delivered to Pad A and will be installed in the Payload Ground Handling Mechanism, awaiting the arrival of Endeavour at the pad.

MISSION: STS-107 -- SPACEHAB/Freestar Research Mission

Vehicle	Columbia/OV-102
Target KSC Launch Date/Time	July 19, 2002
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	August 4, 2002
Mission Duration	16 days
Crew	Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon
Orbital Insertion Altitude/ Inclination	150 nautical miles/39 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (previous notes)

Columbia is in an OPF bay undergoing processing operations for the STS-107 research mission in July. X-rays of the two Freon Coolant Loops are complete and mid-body bay closeouts are in progress. The Extended Duration Orbiter pallet that contains additional propellants for the fuel cells has been checked out and will be installed later this week. An engineering team is evaluating the status of a cold plate located in bay 5 after several small dings were discovered on the cold plate surface.

MISSION: STS-112 -- 15th ISS Flight (9A) - BA, ITS S1 TRUSS

Vehicle	Atlantis/OV-104
Target KSC Launch Date	August 22, 2002
Target KSC Landing Date/Time	September 1, 2002
Mission Duration	10 days
Crew	Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin
Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination	122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note (previous notes)

Shuttle Atlantis is back in its OPF bay after completing the STS-110 space station construction mission with a smooth landing at KSC last Friday. Deservicing operations have begun, and the residual power reactant fuel cell propellants were off-loaded over the weekend. Preparations are under way to remove the heat shield and main engines this week.

Official STS-110 Landing Times, (from April 19, 2002):

Main Gear touchdown -      12:26:58 p.m.      10 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 40 seconds MET
Nose Gear touchdown -     12:27:08 p.m.       10 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 50 seconds MET
Wheels Stop -                  12:28:08 p.m.       10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes, 50 seconds MET

ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD

Vehicle

Discovery/OV-103

Shuttle Processing Note (previous notes)

Discovery is in storage in the VAB, but will return to the OPF later this week. The Orbiter Major Modification Period is scheduled to begin the KSC late this summer.

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