KENNEDY SPACE CENTER <br />SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT <br />Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003 (10 a.m.)<br /><br /><br />For the latest Shuttle status on the web visit<br /><http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/current.htm>. <br />For the latest weather forecast visit<br /><http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/weatstat/forecast.htm>. <br />Visit <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm> for the<br />latest schedule of future Shuttle missions. KSC press releases can be found<br />at <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/release/release.htm>. <br />The KSC home page can be found at <http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/>. <br /><br /><br />MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION<br /><br /><br />VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102<br />TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Jan. 16, 2003<br />TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.<br />TARGET LANDING DATE: Feb. 1, 2003<br />MISSION DURATION: 16 days<br />CREW: Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon<br />ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/39 degrees<br /><br /><br />Shuttle Processing Note: Prelaunch preparations continue at Pad 39-A for<br />Shuttle Columbia's Jan. 16 launch on the Spacehab microgravity research<br />mission. Orbiter Maneuvering System/Reaction Control System flight<br />pressurization is complete. Orbiter aft closeout is in work, with the doors<br />scheduled to be closed Friday morning. Mission managers are currently<br />meeting for the pre-launch STS-107 Flight Readiness Review. No inspections<br />are planned on Columbia related to the BSTRA ball crack evaluation.<br /><br /><br />MISSION STS-114 -- 17TH ISS FLIGHT (ULF1) - CREW ROTATION/MULTI-PURPOSE<br />LOGISTICS MODULE<br /><br /><br />VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104<br />TARGET LAUNCH DATE: March 1, 2003 <br />TARGET LANDING DATE: March 13, 2003 <br />MISSION DURATION: 12 days <br />SHUTTLE CREW: Collins, Kelly, Noguchi, Robinson<br />ISS EXPEDITION CREW 7: Malenchenko, Kaleri, Lu<br />ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees<br /><br /><br />Shuttle Processing Note: Processing continues for Atlantis' March launch to<br />the International Space Station. Water Spray Boiler checkout, and heat<br />shield and Forward Reaction Control System installation is in work. As part<br />of the analysis under way of the crack found in the BSTRA on Discovery,<br />technicians completed the inspection of Atlantis's lines and did not find<br />any cracks. <br /><br /><br />MISSION STS-115 -- 18th ISS FLIGHT (12A) ? P3/P4 SOLAR ARRAYS<br /><br /><br />VEHICLE - Endeavour/OV-105<br />TARGET LAUNCH DATE: May 23, 2003<br />TARGET LANDING DATE: June 3, 2003<br />MISSION DURATION: 10 days<br />CREW: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean, Stefanyshyn-Piper<br />ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees<br /><br /><br />Shuttle Processing Note: Endeavour's deservicing and processing continues<br />for the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station scheduled in May<br />2003. Removal of all three Space Shuttle Main Engines is complete. Orbiter<br />Maneuvering System pod checkout is in work. Inspections are complete of the<br />12-inch and 17-inch BSTRAs on Endeavour and no cracks were found.<br /><br /><br />ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD<br /><br /><br />VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103<br /><br /><br />Shuttle Processing Note: An engineering evaluation continues following the<br />discovery of a surface crack found during standard Orbiter Maintenance and<br />Modification (OMM) inspections. The crack, located on a 2.25-inch diameter<br />metal ball, is associated with the Ball Strut Tie Rod Assembly (BSTRA)<br />inside Discovery's 17-inch liquid oxygen line. OMM work continues with Main<br />Propulsion System flow liner polishing and ongoing wire inspections and<br />repairs. <br /><br /><br />-- end --