Date: July 18th 2006

07 17 06

Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla 321-867-2468

STATUS REPORT: S-071706

NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT

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Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1 1) - Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103) Official Launch Date: July 4, 2006 at 2:38 p m Official Landing Date: July 17, 2006 at 9:14 a m Crew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51 6 degrees/122 nautical miles

After 12 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes of flight, orbiter Discovery safely landed at Kennedy Space Center today with a main landing gear touchdown at 9:14:43 a m EDT The nose landing gear touched down at 9:14:53 a m The orbiter came to a full stop at 9:15:49 a m Discovery made 202 trips around the Earth and traveled 5 3 million miles during the mission Following a four-hour period of landing operations at the shuttle landing strip, the orbiter systems were safed and technicians connected Discovery to ground support equipment for ground cooling and purging of the interior spaces Preliminary inspections revealed 93 total hits to the orbiter's thermal protection system with 11 greater than one inch in diameter The vehicle was towed to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, where the processing flow will begin for its next mission, STS-116, targeted for launch in December

Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight (12A) - P3/P4 Solar Arrays Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104) Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1 Launch Date: No earlier than Aug 28, 2006 Launch Pad: 39B Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51 6 degrees/122 nautical miles

In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, workers are making final preparations for the rollover of Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building, currently scheduled for July 25 Forward closeouts continue and T-0 umbilical disconnects are scheduled to be completed today The T-0 umbilical is the connection point for ground power to the orbiter Final orbiter "power down" for rollover is scheduled for today Final tire pressure for flight is under way Procedures this week include orbiter jackdown, weight and center-of-gravity operations, which occur prior to the vehicle's transfer to the transporter Atlantis will be placed on its transporter on Wednesday

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