The flight will deliver supplies and equipment to station using a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, and marks the first station Utilization Flight. The Expedition Four crew will be launched to the station and Expedition Three brought back to Earth. Launch slipped from Oct. 4. Launch date reset from May. Delayed from June, and then from Aug. as ripple effect from postponement in launching previous Titan 2 mission.
Date is tentative.
NASA flipped the order of Columbia's flights to launch Hubble Servicing 3B prior to the STS-107 mission of a Spacehab research laboratory in the shuttle's payload bay to conduct a variety of experiments. The Spacehab mission will go in the spring of 2002. The rocket will fly in the 7320 vehicle configuration. Calif. The Air Force Titan 4B, known as B-30, will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The Lockheed Martin-built craft will beam programming to subscribers of EchoStar's DISH Newtork.