STS-114 Report #27 Monday, Aug 8, 2005 – 7 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

DiscoveryÂ’s seven astronauts will spend another day in space after weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center landing site prevented a return to Earth today

DiscoveryÂ’s two landing opportunities to Florida were waved off this morning due to unpredictable cloud cover at the landing site

All three primary Shuttle landing sites will be activated on Tuesday NASAÂ’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, will remain the preferred landing site Edwards Air Force Base, California, will be second in preference for landing and White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, will be third in preference Two Shuttle landing opportunities will be available at each site

Weather conditions at KSC for Tuesday are forecast to be similar to today with a slight chance of showers offshore Edwards is forecast to have acceptable conditions for landing White SandsÂ’ forecast includes a chance of showers

Preparations are now focused on the first opportunity to land Tuesday which would begin with an engine firing by Discovery at 3:01 a m CDT and lead to a touchdown at KSC at 4:07 a m CDT The additional landing opportunities include: a 4:33 a m Shuttle engine firing leading to a 5:39 a m landing at White Sands; a 4:37 a m engine firing leading to a 5:43 a m touchdown at KSC; a 6:06 a m engine firing leading to 7:12 a m touchdown at Edwards; a 6:09 a m engine firing leading to a 7:13 a m landing at White Sands; and a 7:44 a m engine firing leading to a 8:47 a m landing at Edwards

The Shuttle crew will fire DiscoveryÂ’s engines at 7:19 a m today to adjust the ShuttleÂ’s orbit and optimize the landing opportunities for tomorrow The crew will go to sleep at 11:39 a m and awaken at 7:39 p m to begin deorbit preparations

The next STS-114 status report will be issued following landing Tuesday or earlier if events warrant