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Posted by Jacques van Oene on July 13, 2005, 5:09 am
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Jessica Rye/Bruce Buckingham
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
STATUS REPORT: S05-032
NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT
Discovery (OV-103)
Mission: STS-114 - 17th ISS Flight (LF1)
Payload: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
Location: Launch Pad 39B
Launch Date: July 13, 2005, 3:51 p.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Crew: Collins, Kelly, Noguchi, Robinson, Thomas, Lawrence and Camarda
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
The countdown to launch Discovery remains on schedule for Wednesday at
3:51 p.m. EDT.
Just one day prior to the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, closeouts
and procedures are finalized for the liftoff of the Return to Flight
mission, STS-114, to the International Space Station. The countdown
clock is in a scheduled built-in hold at T-11 hours (Time Minus 11
hours) and will pick up at 11 p.m. EDT tonight.
At about 5 p.m. today during routine closeouts at the launch pad, the
cover of Discovery's window number seven, one of the overhead crew
cabin windows, fell about 65 feet and hit a carrier panel on the left
Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pod, damaging several tiles. The
tiles were on a single carrier panel, which fits over the area. A
spare carrier panel was taken to the pad and used to replace the
damaged panel. The replacement procedure took about an hour to
complete.
This operation impacted the planned roll back of the Rotating Service
Structure from 7 p.m. to about 8:30 p.m.
The launch on Wednesday will not be impacted as a result. The
countdown is in a planned, built-in hold at the T-11 hour mark. No
other issues are being tracked by the launch team.
Loading of the Power Reactant Storage Distribution system is complete.
This is the operation where the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for
the fuel cells is loaded on Discovery. The fuel cells provide power
to the electrical systems while the Shuttle is in orbit. The
byproduct is drinking water. Setup and checkouts of the Space Shuttle
Main Engines have begun.
Tomorrow morning as early as 5:30 a.m. EDT, the External Tank will be
filled with about 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid
hydrogen. To fill the tank takes about three hours.
Today, the L-1 day weather forecast shows that the probability of
weather prohibiting the launch of Discovery is 40 percent, with the
probability of weather prohibiting tanking at only five percent.
Temperature at launch time is forecast at 86 degrees and a relative
humidity of 70 percent.
The STS-114 crew spent today in various briefings including an
Astronaut Support Personnel ingress briefing. This morning, Commander
Eileen Collins and Pilot Jim Kelly flew several landing approaches at
the Shuttle Landing Facility in the Shuttle Training Aircraft.
The Solid Rocket Booster retrieval ships Liberty Star and Freedom Star
departed from KSC at about 12:30 p.m. and are traveling to their
location for launch, about 140 nautical miles downrange of the launch
pad.
Previous Space Shuttle processing status reports are available on the
Internet at:
http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight
For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
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