Space Shuttle Processing Status 30 Aug 2001
MISSION: STS-108 – 12th ISS Flight (UF1) – MPLM
VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Nov. 29, 2001 at 8:05 p.m. EST
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Dec. 10, 2001 at 12:26 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 10 days
CREW: Gorie, Kelly, Godwin, Tani; (ISS up) Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz; (ISS
down) Culbertson, Dezhurov, Turin
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
Shuttle Processing Note: Work in Endeavour’s midbody continues on schedule
with payload premate testing and robot arm camera installation now complete.
Leak checks on the orbiter’s docking system are also complete.
Work to replace the quick disconnects on Endeavour’s auxiliary power units
continues. Water spray boiler checks are in work, and microwave landing
system tests begin later this week.
MISSION: STS-109 – HST Servicing Mission 3B
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: OPF bay 3
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 17, 2002 at 3:52 a.m. EST
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 28, 2002
MISSION DURATION: 11 days
CREW: Altman, Carey, Grunsfeld, Currie, Newman, Linnehan, Massimino
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 308 nautical miles/28.5 degrees
Shuttle Processing Note: Technicians have completed Ku and radar system
tests. Columbia’s electrical system is still undergoing testing, and fuel
cell voltage tests begin later this week. Preparations are also under way
to install the orbiter forward reaction control system. Work on the
right-hand orbiter maneuvering system pod continues.
MISSION: STS-110 – 13th ISS Flight (8A) – ITS S0, MT
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 4
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Feb. 28, 2002
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: March 9, 2002
MISSION DURATION: 9 days
CREW: Bloomfield, Frick, Ross, Smith, Ochoa, Morin, Walheim
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
Shuttle Processing Note: Orbiter Atlantis is being stored in Vehicle
Assembly Building high bay 4 and will remain there until mid-September.
Some minor work will be performed on the vehicle while in the VAB.
STRUCTURAL INSPECTION & MODIFICATION PERIOD
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2
Shuttle Processing Note: Post-flight deservicing of orbiter Discovery
continues to go well. Workers have completed helium venting on the forward
reaction control system. Discovery’s main engine heat shields are being
removed today and the forward reaction control system will be pulled from
the orbiter’s nose later this week.
Orbiter Discovery is scheduled to begin a thorough structural inspection and
modification period after STS-105 post-flight work concludes. Shuttle
managers continue to assess the content and schedule of this planned work
period.
