KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE
SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1999 (4:48 PM EDT)
MISSION:
STS-96 -- 2nd U.S. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE
- VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
- LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 3
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 20, 1999 at 9:32 a.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: May 30, 1999 at 5:27 a.m. EDT
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 10 minutes
- ISS DOCKING DATE: May 22, 1999 at 4:01 a.m. EDT
- ISS UNDOCKING DATE: May 27, 1999 at 10:07 p.m. EDT
- MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 19 hours and 55 minutes
- CREW: Rominger, Husband, Ochoa, Jernigan, Barry, Payette, Tokarev
- ADDITIONAL PAYLOADS: ICC, STARSHINE, SVF AND IVHM
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
NOTE: Discovery has been mated to the external tank and solid rocket boosters in Vehicle
Assembly Building high bay 3. The Shuttle is powered today to support Shuttle Interface
Testing that continues through noon tomorrow. The entire Shuttle stack is scheduled to move
out to Launch Pad 39B Wednesday morning.
STS-96 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
- Shuttle rolls to Launch Pad 39B (April 21 at 7 a.m.)
- SPACEHAB payload transfer to pad (April 27)
- SPACEHAB installed into orbiter (April 28)
- Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (April 29)
MISSION:
STS-93 -- Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF)
STS-93 images
- VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
- LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 9, 1999 at 1:19 a.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 14, 1999 at 12:20 a.m. EDT
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 46 minutes
- MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours
- CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees
NOTE: Columbia is powered up in OPF bay 1. Orbiter mass memory unit loading is in work today
and technicians plan to open the payload bay doors tonight. Orbiter processing for mission STS-93
resumes following routine OPF receiving inspections.
MISSION:
STS-99 -- SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM)
- VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
- LOCATION: OPF bay 2
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16, 1999 at 8:47 a.m. EDT
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 27, 1999 at 12:52 p.m. EDT
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
- MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 4 hours and 5 minutes
- CREW: Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 126 nautical miles/57 degrees
NOTE: Servicing of Endeavour’s freon coolant loop No. 2 is complete and planned modifications to
the system are in work today. Leak repair on the coolant loop No. 1 cold plate is ongoing and
reservicing begins later this week. With orbiter maneuvering system removal complete, processing
for Endeavour’s upcoming mission is now under way. External airlock installation efforts are under
way and will conclude May 6.
MISSION:
STS-101 -- 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE/ICC
- VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
- LOCATION: OPF bay 3
- TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: December 2, 1999
- TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 13, 1999
- LAUNCH WINDOW: 5-10 minutes
- MISSION DURATION: 10 days and 19 hours
- CREW: Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Lu, Williams, Malenchenko, Morukov
- ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees
NOTE: Atlantis is under going standard life support system leak checks this week. Payload bay
liner modifications continue.
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