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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1996 (12:08 PM EDT) FLIGHT DAY 9 KSC Public Affairs Contact: Bruce Buckingham (fax 407-867-2692) E-mail: Bruce.Buckingham-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov MISSION: STS-79 -- 4th MIR DOCKING & SPACEHAB DM (image) All times are EDT VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 (image) LOCATION: Orbit OFFICIAL KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16 at 4:54:49 a.m. EDT MIR DOCKING: Sept. 18 at 11:13 p.m. MIR UNDOCKING: Sept. 23 at 9:33 p.m. TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 26 at about 8:12 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes CREW: Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Blaha (up), Lucid (down), Apt, Walz (image) ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 196-245 statute miles/51.6 degrees NOTE: Atlantis successfully undocked with Mir at 9:33 p.m. yesterday. Landing remains scheduled for KSC on Sept. 26 at about 8:12 a.m. KSC's weather on landing day remains marginal but forecasters believe the first of two landing opportunities at KSC on Thursday might be acceptable. If landing is not possible at KSC, managers may decide to land Atlantis at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. A final landing location will be determined several hours prior to the deorbit burn. Returning with Atlantis will be Shannon Lucid, ending her record breaking six-month stay on the Mir space station. The crew of mission STS-79 are: Commander Bill Readdy; Pilot Terry Wilcutt; and Mission Specialists Jay Apt, Tom Akers, Carl Walz, John Blaha (up), and Shannon Lucid (down). Mission status reports are issued daily by Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. MISSION: STS-80 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY-3 and ORFEUS-SPAS-2 (image) VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Nov. 8 at 2:47 p.m. (EST) LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Nov. 24 at 7:31 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 16 days CREW: Cockrell, Rominger, Jernigan, Jones, Musgrave ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 218 statute miles/28.45 degrees NOTE: Inspections of the left hand orbital maneuvering system engine continue today. Preparations are also in work to secure the payload bay doors for closing tomorrow. Close-outs of the SRBs are in work in the VAB. The external tank will be mated to the boosters on Thursday. KEY STS-80 OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only): Payload bay door closure (Sept. 25) Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly Building (Sept. 26) Roll Columbia to Vehicle Assembly Building and mate with external tank (Oct. 7) Roll-out to Pad 39B (Oct. 14) NOTE: MISSION STS-81, ATLANTIS, IS TARGETED FOR LAUNCH ON JAN. 12, 1997. SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS WILL BE ISSUED FOLLOWING MISSION STS-79. MISSION: STS-82 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION-2 VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2 TARGET LAUNCH DATE/TIME: February 13, 1997 at 2:59 a.m. LAUNCH WINDOW: 61 minutes TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: February 23, 1997 at 1:35 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 22 hours CREW: Bowersox, Horowitz, Lee, Hawley, Harbaugh, Smith, Tanner ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 360 statute miles/28.45 degrees NOTE: The forward reaction control system has been delivered to the OPF. Preparations are underway to install it tonight. Fuel cell no. 3 is also scheduled to be replaced beginning today. KEY OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only): Begin installation of forward reaction control system (tonight) Complete installation of main engines (about Oct. 10)--end-- For automatic e-mail subscriptions to this daily Shuttle status report or KSC originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) type the words "subscribe shuttle-status", or "subscribe ksc-press-release" (do not use quotation marks). The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an e-mail address to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line), type (no quotes) "unsubscribe shuttle-status", or "unsubscribe ksc-press-release." Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Status Reports and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to jscnews-request@listserver.jsc.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type "subscribe" (no quotes). This will add the e-mail address that sent the subscribe message to the news release distribution list. The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. Once you have subscribed you will receive future news releases via e-mail.