From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
Subject: KSC Shuttle Status Report, 9/11/92
Reply-To: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:19:29 GMT


---

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gerald G. Marfoe                    |"Mirabile visu. Mirabilia/Et itur ad astra
InterNet: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu    |... Suus cuique mos. Suum cuique.../
          ggmar@ducvax.auburn.edu   |Memento, terrigena./Memento, vita brevis."
          ggmar@hoshi.colorado.edu  |- "Afer Ventus", Enya, "Shepherd Moons"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - FRIDAY, SEPT. 11, 1992  10 AM

         STS-47/SPACELAB J - ENDEAVOUR (105) - PAD 39-B
                      LAUNCH MINUS ONE DAY

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Preparations to move the Rotating Service Structure away from
  the vehicle at 1100. Weather conditions could postpone that move.
- Stowing equipment into the crew module.
- Pre-launch inspections of the pad area.
- Configuring switches in the cockpit for the flight.
- Filling the sound suppression system water tank.
- Activate the orbiter's power producing fuel cells tonight.
- Countdown clock will resume at 2003.

WORK COMPLETED:
- Installed the late experiments inside the Spacelab including
  the frogs and fish.
- Activated the orbiter's communications system.
- Closed out the tail service masts for launch.
- Powered  up  the  three  shuttle  main  engine controllers and
  verified the flight software.
- Countdown entered planned 21 hour, 3 minute built-in  hold  at
  2300 last night.

STS-47 FLIGHT CREW ACTIVITIES:
- All seven crew members will be briefed by the astronaut support
  personnel in preparation for tomorrow's activities. A weather
  briefing will be held for the crew today. Commander Hoot Gibson,
  Pilot Curt Brown and Mission Specialist Mark Lee are scheduled to
  fly in the T-38 jets this morning.
     The Blue team will sleep between 1000 and 1800 today. They
  will have the option of taking a nap before launch day procedures
  begin at 0458 tomorrow. The red team will be going to sleep at
  2130 tonight.

LAUNCH DAY TIMELINE:
- Countdown enters one-hour built-in hold at 0103 tomorrow.
- 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, September 12. Launch window extends
  for two and a half hours or until 1253 tomorrow.

WEATHER FORECAST:
- With a possibility of having rainshowers in the area at launch
  time, forecasters are predicting a 70 percent chance of having
  acceptable conditions at launch time on Saturday.

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

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Close outs of the vehicle.
- Main engine interface leak checks.
- Hydraulic system operations.

WORK COMPLETED:
- Replaced TACANs No. 1 and 3.
- Completed check out of the forward reaction control system.

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.

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

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Installing auxiliary power unit simulators.        
- Preparations to deservice 

   STS-52 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS/EXTERNAL TANK - VAB HIGH BAY 1

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

WORK SCHEDULED:
- Bolting the orbiter Columbia to the boosters and tank later
  this month.

          STS-53 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - VAB HIGH BAY 3

WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Stacking the left aft booster on the mobile launcher platform.