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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS 8/8/94
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY - 2
% VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
% ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 138 sm
% LOCATION: Pad 39A
% INCLINATION: 57 degrees
% LAUNCH DATE and TIME: August 18 at 6:54 a.m.
% CREW SIZE: 6
% LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
% KSC LANDING DATE and TIME: August 28 at 11:36 a.m. EDT
% MISSION DURATION: 10 days/4 hours/40 minutes
IN WORK TODAY: - Orbiter aft engine compartment close-outs - Countdown
preparations - Checks of main propulsion system pressure transducers
WORK SCHEDULED: - Install contingency spacesuits - Ordnance
installation and pressurize hypergolic reactants - Crew arrival (8:30
a.m. Monday, Aug. 15) - Countdown begins (11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 15)
WORK COMPLETED: - Prelaunch propellant load - Flight Readiness Review
MISSION: STS-64 -- LIDAR IN-SPACE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT (LITE)
% VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
% ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 161 sm
% LOCATION: OPF bay 2
% INCLINATION: 57 degrees
% TARGET LAUNCH DATE: September 9
% CREW SIZE: 6
% APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: late afternoon
% LANDING LOCATION: KSC
% LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
% MISSION DURATION: 9 days
IN WORK TODAY: - Load vehicle onto orbiter transporter
WORK SCHEDULED: - Transfer to Vehicle Assembly Building (late tonight)
- Mate with external tank (Tuesday) - Rollout to pad 39B (Monday, Aug.
15)
WORK COMPLETED: - Orbiter jack down, weight and center of gravity
checks - Check and retest elevon cove seals - Retract landing gear -
Orbiter aft engine compartment close-outs - Close payload bay doors for
orbiter move to Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
MISSION: STS-66 -- ATLAS-3/CRISTA-SPAS
% VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
% ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 189 sm
% LOCATION: OPF bay 3
% INCLINATION: 57 degrees
% TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: late October
% CREW SIZE: 6
% APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: early afternoon
% LANDING LOCATION: KSC
% LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour/6 minutes
% MISSION DURATION: 10 days/20 hours
IN WORK TODAY: - Main propulsion system leak and functional checks -
Forward reaction control system interface tests - Forward module
close-outs
WORK SCHEDULED: - Preparations to install ATLAS-3 payload - Begin
stacking solid rockets boosters in Vehicle Assembly Building
WORK COMPLETED: - Raise landing gear - Install new flash evaporator
system - Install forward reaction control system - Freon coolant loop
deservice
MISSION: STS-73 -- UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY - 2
% VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
% LOCATION: OPF bay 1
NOTE: Columbia is in OPF bay 1 where work is continuing to prepare it
for transfer to Palmdale, Calif., for the scheduled orbiter maintenance
down period (OMDP). Transfer of Columbia to the west coast is scheduled
to occur in mid-October. When Columbia returns to KSC early next year,
processing will begin for mission STS-73 scheduled for the late summer
1995. The spacelab tunnel adapter has been removed. The three main
engines will be removed next week.
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