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- From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.news
- Subject: Shuttle Status for 12/21/92 (Forwarded)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.054648.2450@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 05:46:48 GMT
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- SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
- Kennedy Space Center, Florida
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- Monday, December 21, 1992
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- George H. Diller
- 407/867-2468
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- Vehicle: OV-105/Endeavour Mission Number: STS-54
- Location: Launch Pad 39-B
- Primary Payload: TDRS-F/IUS-13 + Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS)
- Launch Timeframe: NET January 13
- Mission Duration: 5 Days 23 Hours 33 Minutes
- Inclination: 28.45 degrees Crew Size: 5
- Nominal Landing Site: KSC
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- IN WORK TODAY:
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- - IUS ordnance installation
- - IUS flight battery installation
- - Space Shuttle vehicle ordnance installation
- - aft compartment closeouts
- - preparations for holiday work suspension/holiday outages
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- WORK COMPLETED:
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- - IUS Flight Readiness Checks
- - retest IUS Range Safety hold-fire circuit
- - calibration of inertial measurement units
- - crew cabin and aft compartment cleaning
- - avionics bay closeouts
- - aft main engine compartment confidence test
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- WORK SCHEDULED:
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- - Flight Readiness Review on Tuesday
- - close payload bay doors for the holidays on Tuesday night
- - power down Space Shuttle vehicle for the holidays on Wednesday
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- SPECIAL TOPICS:
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- OV-103/Discovery atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
- arrived at KSC at 2:41 p.m. EST on Friday. It was demated from
- the 747 and arrived at OPF Bay 3 at 7:25 a.m. on Saturday. The
- orbiter has been jacked and leveled. The forward reaction
- control system (FRCS) has been removed and is to be transported
- to the Hypergolic Maintenance Facilty (HMF) today. Also in work
- today is the removal of the ferry flight tail cone. The payload
- bay doors are being opened for removal of the airborne support
- equipment which will be followed by troubleshooting of ODERACS.
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- In the Vehicle Assembly Building, STS-55 solid rocket
- booster stacking and leak checks of the left and right boosters
- was successfully completed on Saturday. Joint closeouts are in
- work. Mating the external tank is scheduled to occur when work
- resumes after the Christmas holidays.
-