Space Shuttle Processing Status 13 Jun 2002

MISSION: STS-111 – 14th ISS Flight (UF2) – MPLM

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105

LAUNCH DATE/TIME: June 5, 2002 at 5:22:49 p.m. EDT

KSC LANDING DATE: June 17, 2002 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

MISSION DURATION: 12 days

CREW: Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin; (ISS up) Korzun, Whitson, Treschev; (ISS down) Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz

ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Everything continues to perform well aboard Endeavour during docked operations at the International Space Station. The third spacewalk of the STS-111 mission is scheduled for today, where Astronauts Philippe Perrin and Franklin Chang-D’az will replace the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System wrist roll joint . Undocking is scheduled for Saturday with the first planned landing opportunity on Monday, June 17 at 1:00 p.m. The landing time has changed due to cross-range limitations on an earlier landing opportunity.

MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION

VEHICLE – Columbia/OV-102

LAUNCH DATE: July 19, 2002

KSC LANDING DATE: August 4, 2002

MISSION DURATION: 16 days

CREW: Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon

ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/39 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: At a meeting this morning, mission managers determined
that processing for the STS-107 microgravity research mission would continue to proceed toward a July 19 launch date. Landing gear, nose wheel steering and brake functional tests, as well as the four-inch liquid hydrogen disconnect connections are complete. Integrated hydraulic checkout is in work. The doors on the payload bay, containing the SPACEHAB/FREESTAR payload, are scheduled to be closed for flight tomorrow and will not be reopened at the pad prior to launch.

MISSION STS-112 — 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) – BA, ITS S1

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104

LAUNCH DATE: August 22, 2002

KSC LANDING DATE: September 1, 2002

MISSION DURATION: 10 days

CREW: Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin

ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Processing continues for Atlantis’ scheduled launch to the International Space Station this August. Ammonia servicing and the payload premate test are complete. Replacement of fuel cell No. 2 is in work.

ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD

Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery is in the OPF awaiting the start of its Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period that is scheduled to begin at the Kennedy Space Center late this summer.