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August 15, 2002
 
2002 Year at a Glance

Status Reports

 July Status Reports
 
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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-112 -- 15th ISS Flight (9A) - BA, ITS S1 
Vehicle Atlantis/OV-104
Target Launch Date September 28, 2002 NET
Target Landing Date October 9, 2002
Mission Duration 11 days
Crew Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin
Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
 

Shuttle Processing Note  (previous notes)
Processing continues for Atlantis’ launch to the International Space Station. Polishing, welding and all testing has been successfully completed on the liquid hydrogen flow liners in the orbiter’s Main Propulsion System (MPS). Preparations for engine installation are in work and installation is scheduled to begin late this evening. 

Engineering evaluation continues on the cracks found in the bearings located in the JEL (jacking, equalization and leveling) cylinders on Crawler Transporter No. 2. Managers are reviewing possible solutions, including using crawler No. 1 as is, taking good bearings from crawler No. 1 and placing them on crawler No. 2, and replacing the bearings on No. 2 with new bearings from the vendor. A decision as to how to move forward is expected as early as next week.
 

MISSION: STS-113 -- 16th ISS Flight (11A) - ITS, P1
Vehicle Endeavour/OV-105
Target Launch Date November 2, 2002 NET
Target Landing Date November 13, 2002
Mission Duration 11 days
Crew Wetherby, Lockhart, Lopez-Alergria, Herrington; (ISS up) Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit; (ISS down) Korzun, Whitson, Treschev 
Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
 

Shuttle Processing Note  (previous notes)
Processing continues for Endeavour’s launch to the International Space Station. Now that work is complete on Atlantis’ flow liners, technicians have begun to polish the flow liner slots on Endeavour. Welding of the cracks found in the liners is scheduled to begin early next week.
 

MISSION: STS-107 -- SPACEHAB/FREESTAR Microgravity Research Mission
Vehicle Columbia/OV-102
Target Launch Date November 29, 2002 NET
Target Landing Date December 15, 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)
Nominal processing has been completed in preparation for Columbia’s research mission now scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 29. Columbia was moved to a storage facility to await flow liner repairs prior to its next mission.
 

ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD
Vehicle Discovery/OV-103
 

Shuttle Processing Note  (previous notes)
Discovery is awaiting the start of its Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period that is scheduled to begin at the Kennedy Space Center late this summer.
 

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