Space Shuttle Processing Status 11 Nov 2002

MISSION: STS-113 – 16th ISS Flight (11A) – P1 Truss Segment

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Nov. 18, 2002 NET
LAUNCH PERIOD: 7 – 11 p.m.
TARGET LANDING DATE: Nov. 29, 2002 NET
MISSION DURATION: 11 days
SHUTTLE CREW: Wetherbee, Lockhart, Lopez-Alegria, Herrington
ISS CREW UP: Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit
ISS CREW DOWN: Korzun, Whitson, Treschev
ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: At about 9:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10,
following the completion of tanking operations, NASA managers postponed the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-113 due to higher than
allowable
oxygen levels in the orbiter’s mid body. Launch has been tentatively
set for
no earlier than Monday, Nov. 18 so that technicians can troubleshoot
and
repair the leak. Detanking of Endeavour’s external tank will begin
early
this morning, and over the next two days, both the liquid hydrogen
and
liquid oxygen in the Power Reactant Storage and Distribution System
will be
offloaded.

Workers at the pad will gain access to the orbiter as early as
Wednesday and
begin to investigate the exact location and possible cause of the
leak. At
this time, managers do not feel that the P1 truss payload will need
to be
removed for workers to make a repair.

Due to the delay, the astronauts will return to Johnson Space Center
in
Houston.