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MISSION:
STS-112
-- 15th
ISS Flight (9A) - S1 Truss Segment |
| Vehicle |
Atlantis/OV-104 |
| Official Launch Date
and Time |
October 2, 2002 at 3:45:51 p.m. EDT |
| Target Landing Date
and Time |
October 18, 2002 at
11:44 a.m. EDT |
| Mission Duration |
11 days |
| Crew |
Ashby, Melroy, Wolf,
Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin |
| Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination |
122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
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Shuttle
Processing Note (previous notes) |
 The Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station yesterday and is making preparations to return to Earth tomorrow after a successful mission installing the S1 Truss Segment.
Landing at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) is slated to occur on orbit 170 at mission elapsed time 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes. The deorbit burn will occur at about 10:36 a.m. EDT. A second KSC landing opportunity is also available on Oct. 18 at 1:21 p.m. EDT with a deorbit burn coming at 12:16 p.m. EDT. No landing opportunities are planned for the back-up landing location at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), Calif., on Friday.
If managers must keep Atlantis in orbit an additional day, two landing opportunities are available at KSC on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 10:31 a.m. EDT and at 12:06 p.m. EDT.
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MISSION:
STS-113 --
16th ISS
Flight (11A) - P1 Truss Segment |
| Vehicle |
Endeavour/OV-105 |
| Target Launch Date |
November 10, 2002 |
| Target Launch
Period |
10:30 p.m. (Nov. 9) to 2:30
a.m. (Nov. 10) |
| Target Landing Date |
November 20, 2002 |
| Mission Duration |
11 days |
| Crew |
Wetherbee, Lockhart,
Lopez-Alegria,
Herrington; (ISS up) Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit; (ISS down) Korzun,
Whitson, Treschev |
| Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination |
122
nautical miles/51.6 degrees |
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Shuttle
Processing Note (previous
notes) |
Space Shuttle Endeavour is at Launch Pad 39-A following its Oct. 12 rollout. The primary payload, P1 Truss, has been installed into the orbiter’s payload bay and the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test is in work this week. Pad validations are complete. Preparation for propellant load scheduled for next week is currently in work.
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MISSION:
STS-107
-- SPACEHAB/FREESTAR
Microgravity Research Mission |
| Vehicle |
Columbia/OV-102 |
| Target Launch Date |
January 16, 2003
NET |
| Target Landing Date |
February 1, 2003 |
| Mission Duration |
16 days |
| Crew |
Husband, McCool,
Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon |
| Orbital Insertion
Altitude/ Inclination |
150
nautical miles/39 degrees |
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Shuttle
Processing Note (previous
notes) |
| Columbia continues processing in preparation for its research mission scheduled for no earlier than Jan. 16. Polishing and welding on the flow-liners is complete and final cleaning in work. Engine installation is scheduled to begin late Friday. |
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ORBITER
MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD |
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Shuttle
Processing Note (previous
notes) |
| The Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period for Discovery continues at KSC with wire inspections in the crew module set to continue this week. |
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