From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
Subject: KSC Shuttle Status, 9/10/92
Reply-To: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:09:20 GMT

(Forwarded from NASA Spacelink BBS.)

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Gerald G. Marfoe                    |"Mirabile visu. Mirabilia/Et itur ad astra
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          ggmar@ducvax.auburn.edu   |Memento, terrigena./Memento, vita brevis."
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   KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1992  10 AM

         STS-47/SPACELAB J - ENDEAVOUR (105) - PAD 39-B
                      LAUNCH MINUS TWO DAYS
 
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Preparations to disconnect the orbiter midbody umbilical unit used 
  to load cryogenic reactants into the orbiter's onboard fuel cell 
  storage tanks.
- Activate the orbiter's communications system.
- Preparations to load time critical experiments into the Spacelab 
  module including the frogs and fish.
- Countdown clock enters planned 4-hour built-in hold at the T-19
  hour mark.

WORK COMPLETED:
- Loaded liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants into the 
  orbiter for use by the fuel cells.

STS-47 FLIGHT CREW ACTIVITIES:
- Commander Hoot Gibson and Pilot Curt Brown flew in the Shuttle
  Training Aircraft this morning. Crew members receive a medical
  exam today, review flight data files and collect baseline data.

WORK SCHEDULED:
- Move rotating service structure away from the vehicle at 1100
  Friday.
- Begin loading cryogenic propellants into the external tank at
  0203 Saturday.
- Crew wake-up time on Saturday morning is at 0458 for the blue
  team and at 0528 for the red team.
- Crew breakfast is at 0558 Saturday.
- Flight crew departs for the launch pad at 0708 Saturday.
- Launch at 1023 EDT Saturday, Sept. 12.

WEATHER FORECAST:
- Forecasters are predicting an 80 percent chance of having 
  acceptable conditions at launch time on Saturday.

          STS-52/LAGEOS - COLUMBIA (OV 102) - OPF BAY 1

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Replacement of TACANs No. 1 and 3.
- Check out of the forward reaction control system.
- Tests of the robot arm.
- Close outs of the vehicle.
- Main engine interface leak checks.

WORK SCHEDULED:
- Transfer to the Vehicle Assembly Building next week for mate
  with the external tank and boosters.


           STS-53/DoD - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - OPF BAY 3

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Electrical redundancy testing of the orbital maneuvering system
  and reaction control system.
- Leak and functional tests of the auxiliary power units.
- Integrated testing the main propulsion system.
- Testing of the Ku-band antenna.

WORK COMPLETED:
- Installed the drag chute door.
 

       MODIFICATION PERIOD - ATLANTIS (OV 104) - OPF BAY 2

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Transfer the power reactant storage and distribution system
  tanks to the Logistics Facility for storage.
- Removal of auxiliary power unit lines.
- Preparations to deservice the freon cooling system.
- Removing TACAN antennas and the radar altimeter.

WORK COMPLETED:
- Flushed the auxiliary power units.


      STS-52 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS/EXTERNAL TANK - VAB HB 1

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Making connections between the external tank to the solid
  rocket boosters.

WORK COMPLETED:
- External tank was attached to the orbiter yesterday.

WORK SCHEDULED:
- Mating the orbiter Columbia later this month.

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