From: "Jacques van Oene" Newsgroups: sci.space.news Subject: KSC Shuttle Status, Feb. 09-2001 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:37:18 GMT Organization: chello broadband Approved: sci-space-news@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: <257h6.34381$v%6.515326@nlnews00.chello.com> charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov 981794376 25752 137.79.50.27 (10 Feb 2001 08:39:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@newsfeed.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Feb 2001 08:39:36 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Originator: daemon@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Xref: newsread2.funet.fi sci.space.news:4296 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS_______________ KSC Contact: Joel Wells Friday, Feb. 9, 2001 (4:43 PM) 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: On orbit KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Feb. 7, 2001 at 6:13:02 p.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Feb. 18, 2001 at about 1 p.m. EST LAUNCH WINDOW: less than 5 minutes MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 18 hours and 47 minutes CREW: Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Jones, Ivins ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 177 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Shuttle Atlantis is in excellent health on orbit. The solid rocket booster recovery ships Freedom Star and Liberty Star arrived at Hangar AF today at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. respectively. Preliminary reports indicate both boosters are in good condition. Open assessment inspections begin Monday. MISSION: STS-102 - 8th ISS Flight (5A.1) - Leonardo MPLM VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: VAB high bay 1 TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Mar. 8, 2001 at about 7 a.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Mar. 20, 2001 at about 1 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 -more- -2- (KSC Space Shuttle Processing Status 2/9/01) Shuttle Processing Note: Space Shuttle Discovery remains scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39B Monday at 7 a.m. Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities are planned for next week. Four of the seven STS-102 crew members arrive at KSC Monday at about 5 p.m. and the three Increment 2 crew members arrive Tuesday at noon. The launch day dress rehearsal occurs Thursday morning. 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 are conducting turnaround verification of the orbiter robot arm. Installation of the left-hand orbital maneuvering system pod, and fuel cell voltage tests are scheduled this week. - end - -- Jacques :-) "One thing about the speed of light... It usually arives too early in the morning". My spaceflight History Homepage: http://www.jacqmans.com