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Wednesday, October 7, 1992
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia/OV-102
Location: Launch Pad 39-B
Primary Payloads: IRIS/LAGEOS-2
USMP-1
Launch Date: October 22
Available launch window: 11:16 a.m.-2:21 p.m. EDT (3 hrs 5 min)
IN WORK:
- power-on testing
- heat shield and eye lid installation around SSME #3
- preparations for hypergolic propellant loading
- helium signature leak checks of the main engines and main propulsion system
- USMP payload Cryogenic Servicing
- CVTE payload power supply checkout
- Potable water sampling
COMPLETED:
- APU #1 quick disconnect changeout
- Galley water tank changeout
- SSME #3 changeout
- SSME #3 leak checks
- USMP payload Interface Verification Test (IVT) with Columbia
SCHEDULED:
- Hypergolic storable propellant loading on Thursday and Friday
- IRIS/LAGEOS payload Interface Verification Test (IVT) with Columbia on
Saturday
- Flight Readiness Test on Sunday
A summary of other orbiter vehicles, associated payloads and the VAB
activities will be released weekly on Friday covering the schedule for the
upcoming week and the previous week. Issues and concerns having potential
schedule impact will be addressed if and when they occur.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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DAILY NEWS/TV SKED 10/7/92
Daily News
Wednesday, October 7, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788
% Space flight management sets October 22 as STS-52 launch date for Columbia;
% Administrator Goldin approves selection of two cosmonauts for 1993
shuttle flight;
% Scientists to discuss recent Hubble & Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer results
tomorrow;
% 2,000 teachers will get an advance tour of new Space Center Houston tomorrow
% TDRS-F is mated to its Inertial Upper Stage, testing of pair to begin next
week;
% 119 microgravity scientists awarded Space Station Freedom research grants.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA space flight management yesterday set October 22 as the official launch
date for Columbia's STS-52 science and technology mission. The launch window
opens on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 11:16 am EDT and extends for the next
two-and-a-half hours. Columbia is scheduled to remain in orbit for nine days
with a planned end-of-mission landing at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle
Landing Facility.
Work on Launch Pad 39-B today includes the helium signature leak test of
Columbia's main propulsion system, including the three shuttle main engines.
Tomorrow and Friday the launch pad will be cleared for the loading of
hypergolic fuels. On Saturday technicians will conduct a payload interface
verification test of the Laser Geodynamics Satellite and its upper stage. The
interface test for U.S. Microgravity Payload-1 payload has already been
successfully conducted.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin has approved the selection by the Russian
Space Agency of two cosmonauts who will train in the U.S. to fly on a space
shuttle mission in November 1993. The cosmonauts, Sergei Krikalev and Vladimir
Titov, are both highly awarded veteran space flyers. Titov has logged more
than a year in space with a total of three space flights. Krikalev has logged
nearly a year-and-a-half on two spaceflights, including one to the Mir space
station. Both cosmonauts have been awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet
Union, both have received the Order of Lenin, and both have been honored by the
French government with the title L'Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.
The two cosmonauts are expected to arrive at the Johnson Space Center later
this month to begin their training as shuttle mission specialists. One
cosmonaut will be designated as prime crewmember for the 1993 flight while the
other will be designated as backup crewmember.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA and university astronomers will present another in the Space Astronomy
Update series tomorrow, Oct. 8, at 1:00 pm EDT in the NASA Headquarters
auditorium. The briefing, which will present a striking Hubble Space Telescope
picture of cosmic mirror images and an Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer image of a
powerful object two billion light years from the Milky Way, will be shown live
on NASA Select television. The Hubble observations provide new information on
distant galaxies and on the distribution of mysterious dark matter, whose
nature remains unknown. The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer data provides new
information about objects visible in that wavelength of light. Briefers will
include Richard Ellis, University of Durham, U.K.; Bruce Margon, University of
Washington, Seattle; Daniel Weedman, Pennsylvania State University, University
Park; and Steve Maran, Goddard Space Flight Center. Extreme Ultraviolet
Explorer principal scientist Stuart Bowyer, University of California at
Berkeley, will present his team's findings via videotape.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Nearly 2,000 teachers will be touring through Johnson Space Center's new
visitor experience facility today. The facility, Space Center Houston,
formally opens next Friday, October 16, at 11:00 am EDT. The center, which is
on the JSC grounds and which has been under construction for the past two
years, will give visitors a first hand look at a behind-the-scenes
NASA-at-work. Visitors can monitor activities going on in the flight control
rooms, watch astronauts in training and through multi-media presentations
participate in both the history and future of space flight.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
In preparation for next January's planned launch aboard Endeavour, technicians
at KSC earlier this week mated the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-F to its
Inertial Upper Stage booster rocket. TDRS-F is the primary payload for
Endeavour's STS-54 mission. The interface verification test of the TDRS and
IUS will be conducted next week with an end-to-end systems test scheduled for
the week after. The payload is expected to be moved to the launch pad by
Thanksgiving.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA yesterday awarded approximately $15 million in annual funding to 119
microgravity researchers working to develop the research potential of the space
station. The grants represent a 70 percent increase in the number of
investigators working in the field of microgravity research. The selected
scientists represent 60 universities, 8 corporate or private laboratories, 5
other government research institutions and 4 NASA centers. The selection was
made by a peer review panel from over 500 proposals submitted.
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. Note
that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times listed
are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
Live 12:00 pm NASA Today featuring reports on the
upcoming STS-52 mission; a look at the two Cosmonauts
selected by the Russian Space Agency to participate in a
shuttle mission; a look at work being done at Howard
University using NASA grants; a report on an award to
NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin for his efforts to
enrich the agency's cultural diversity; a look at the
Goddard Space Flight Center's community day; and, as
usual, a look back at this day in NASA history.
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
12:30 pm Orbital Mechanics.
1:00 pm Apollo 10 - Sorting Out the Unknown.
1:30 pm Flying Machines.
2:00 pm Launch Box program #2.
2:30 pm The Moon: A Goal.
3:00 pm Total Quality Management program #41, part
of the University of New Mexico series.
4:00 pm 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight programming repeats.
Thursday, October 8, 1992
Live 1:00 pm Space Astronomy Update presenting new
Hubble Space Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
images and featuring Richard Ellis, University of
Durham, U.K.; Bruce Margon, University of Washington,
Seattle; Daniel Weedman, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park; and Steve Maran, Goddard Space Flight
Center. Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer principal scientist
Stuart Bowyer, University of California at Berkeley, will
present his team's findings via videotape.
2:00 pm Total Quality Management Colloquium with
Edward Stone, Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
on the topic of "Restructuring Cassini."
4:00 pm 8:00 pm & 12:00 midnight programming repeats.
NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees
West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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