Status Report

Space Shuttle Status Report 8 Jan 2001

By SpaceRef Editor
January 8, 2001
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NOTE: This is an orbiter processing report and does not necessarily reflect
the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. Visit
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm on the KSC Home
Page for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions.

MISSION: STS-98 – 7th ISS Flight (5A) – U.S. Laboratory

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104

LOCATION: Launch Pad 39A

TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 19, 2001 at about 2:11 a.m. EST

TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Jan. 29, 2001 at about 9:51 p.m. EST

LAUNCH WINDOW: less than 5 minutes

MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes

CREW: Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Jones, Ivins

ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 177 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Workers have completed standard launch pad
validations and processing of Space Shuttle Atlantis continues toward a
target launch date of Jan. 19.

The flight crew completed Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities
on Saturday and returned to Houston, Texas on Sunday. Over the weekend,
workers also completed installation of the U.S. Laboratory into Atlantis’
payload bay. The payload bay doors are slated for closure on Thursday.
Routine helium signature leak testing concluded on Sunday.

At Launch Pad 39A today, the orbiter’s onboard storage tanks are being
loaded with oxidizer and tomorrow fuel loading efforts begin. Shuttle main
engine testing and solid rocket booster hydraulic tests are scheduled this
week.

Upcoming Milestones (dates are targets only):

Shuttle Main Engine testing –
Jan. 10

Orbiter aft compartment close-outs begin – Jan. 11
Payload bay doors closed for flight – Jan.
11

Ordnance installation begins – Jan. 13

Flight crew equipment stowage – Jan.
14

MISSION: STS-102 – 8th ISS Flight (5A.1) – Leonardo MPLM

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103

LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1

TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Mar. 1, 2001 at 9:40 a.m. EST

TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Mar. 13, 2001 at 5:15 a.m.

LAUNCH WINDOW: less than 5 minutes

MISSION DURATION: 11 days

CREW: Wetherbee, Kelly, Thomas, Richards; (up) Voss, Helms, Usachev; (down)
Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalev

ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 177 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Technicians have completed auxiliary power unit
leak and functional tests. Payload premate testing and main propulsion
system testing continue. Checks of the orbiter’s water spray boiler are in
progress.

MISSION: STS-100 – 9th ISS Flight (6A) -Raffaello MPLM, SSRMS

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105

LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2

TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Apr. 19, 2001 at 2:04 p.m. EDT

TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Apr. 30, 2001 at 9:56 a.m.

MISSION DURATION: 11 days

CREW: Rominger, Ashby, Hadfield, Parazynski, Phillips, Guidoni, Lonchakov
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 177 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Workers have completed mass memory unit loading
efforts. Today, orbital maneuvering system pod checks are in work. This
week technicians will remove the forward reaction control system to
accommodate planned thruster replacement work.

SpaceRef staff editor.