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Subject: SLS-2 Status Report
Date: 28 Jul 1993 17:31:33 -0400
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Subj: SLS-2 STATUS REPORT
PAYLOAD STATUS REPORT
STS-58/SLS-2
July 28, 1993
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center
407/867-2468
The primary payload for mission STS-58, the Spacelab Life
Sciences 2 (SLS-2) laboratory module, passed a processing
milestone today with the completion of the Interface Verification
Test (IVT) verifying electrical and mechanical connections
between the Spacelab module and the Spacelab tunnel. The tunnel,
which provides astronaut access between the orbiter mid-deck and
the module itself, contains lights and air-handling equipment for
the Spacelab. It was installed into Columbia's payload bay July
24-25.
Also successfully completed was an end-to-end test to verify
communications capability between the laboratory in Columbia's
payload bay and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Columbia
and SLS-2 are in Bay 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC.
The laboratory module was installed into Columbia on July 15 and
these connections were also verified with an IVT on July 20-22.
Next, limited-lifetime experiment lockers were installed
within the SLS-2 laboratory on July 22-23. The most
time-critical of the experiments will be installed at the pad
during launch countdown.
After the experiment lockers were installed in the OPF, the
Spacelab tunnel installation followed last weekend on July 24-25.
Columbia is targeted to move to the Vehicle Assembly
Building on Aug. 15 and roll out to Launch Pad 39-B about a week
later. Once at the pad, ground support equipment used in
experiment activation will be installed inside the Spacelab
module. The actual SLS-2 activation occurs at the beginning of
the STS-58 launch countdown.
The SLS-2 mission, like its predecessor, SLS-1, is dedicated
to life sciences research related to the future health, safety
and productivity of humans in space.
SLS-2 will re-fly many of the SLS-1 investigations to enable
scientists to draw more definitive and statistically significant
conclusions. Fourteen coordinated and complementary experiments
will focus on the physiological mechanisms involved in the
adaptation to microgravity and readaptation to normal Earth
gravity. The STS-58/SLS-2 mission is targeted for launch the
second week of September.
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