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- From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
- Subject: Shuttle Status for 12/24/92 (Forwarded)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.211955.28112@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:19:55 GMT
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- SPACE SHUTTLE WEEKLY STATUS SUMMARY
- Thursday, December 24, 1992
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- George H. Diller
- Kennedy Space Center
- 407/867-2468
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- Vehicle: OV-105/Orbiter Endeavour Mission Number: STS-54
- Location: Launch Pad 39-B
- Primary Payload: TDRS-F/IUS-13 + Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer (DXS)
- Launch Date: January 13 8:52 a.m. EST
- Inclination: 28.45 degrees Crew Size: 5 astronauts
- Mission Duration: 5 days 23 hours 33 minutes
- Nominal Landing: KSC Jan. 19 8:24 a.m. EST
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- STS-54 IN WORK:
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- - No work scheduled until 12:01 a.m. January 4, 1993
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- STS-54 WORK SCHEDULED:
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- - resume aft main engine compartment closeouts
- - load mass memory units
- - install EVA spacesuits
- - install flight crew equipment in crew module
- - ordnance connections and stray voltage checks
- - hypergolic tank pressurization
- - external tank purges
- - IUS countdown test/guidance system calibration and alignment
- - TDRS battery charging
- - DXS interim servicing
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- STS-54 WORK COMPLETED:
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- - close and secure crew cabin access hatch for the holidays
- - close payload bay doors for the holidays
- - install aft compartment flight doors for the holidays
- - power off Space Shuttle vehicle for the holidays
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- Vehicle: OV-102/Orbiter Columbia
- Current location: OPF Bay 2
- Mission: STS-55/Spacelab-D2 Inclination: 28.45 degrees
- Launch timeframe: February, wk 4 Nominal Landing Site: KSC
- Mission Duration: 8 days 22 hours Crew size: 7
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- STS-55 IN WORK:
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- - no work scheduled until January 4, 1993
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- STS-55 WORK SCHEDULED:
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- - resume standard tile repair
- - resume payload bay cleaning
- - resume freon coolant loop functional tests
- - install Spacelab tunnel
- - install Spacelab D-2 laboratory module
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- STS-55 WORK COMPLETED:
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- - forward reaction control system installation/connects/checkout
- - OMS pod leak and functional checks
- - hydraulic system servicing/leak and functional checks
- - drage chute intsllation
- - GAS beams installed
- - Spacelab tunnel adapter installation
- - main landing gear functional test
- - freon closed-loop coolant system leak checks
- - main engine mechanical and electrical connections
- - freon coolant loop rework
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- SPECIAL TOPICS: STS-55 VAB High Bay 3 - During high pressure
- checks of the left booster, leakage was seen at the left forward
- center joint. The booster segement was destacked and a hair 1
- 1/10 inches long was found across the secondary O-ring seal. The
- booster segment will be restacked and retested after the holidays
- with no schedule impact to launch.
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- Vehicle: OV-103/Discovery Mission Number: STS-56
- Location: OPF Bay 3
- Payloads: ATLAS-2/ODERACS/SSBUV/SPARTAN/SUVE
- Launch timeframe: March, wk 3 Crew Size: 5
- Mission Duration: 8 days Inclination: 57 degrees
- Nominal Landing Site: KSC
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- STS-56 IN WORK:
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- - No work scheduled until January 4, 1993
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- STS-56 WORK COMPLETED:
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- - orbiter safed/hypergolic residual deservicing complete
- - removal of forward reaction control system
- - removal of ferry flight tail cone
- - removal of USAF airborne support equipment
- - open payload bay doors
- - orbiter/ODERACS interface troubleshooting
- - ODERACS removal
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- STS-56 WORK SCHEDULED:
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- - begin orbiter turnaround activities
- - reconfigure payload bay for ATLAS-2
-