KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT  
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002 (12:30 p.m.)

NOTE: This is an orbiter processing report and does not necessarily reflect
the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. Visit
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm on the KSC Home
Page for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions.  

MISSION: STS-109 - HST Servicing  Mission 3B

VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE: Feb. 28, 2002 at 6:48 a.m.
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE:  March 11, 2002 at 3:33 a.m.
MISSION DURATION: 11 days 
CREW: Altman, Carey, Grunsfeld, Currie, Newman, Linnehan, Massimino 
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 308 nautical miles/28.5 degrees 

Shuttle Processing Note: Pre-launch operations for Shuttle Columbia remain
on schedule for the planned liftoff at 6:48 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 28.
Preparations are underway for the next major milestone, space vehicle
ordnance installation, which will continue through Wednesday night. The
issue concerning the status of the Auxiliary Power Unit  (APU) hydraulic
pump bolts is still being evaluated. The STS-109 flight crew will arrive at
KSC early Monday, Feb. 25, and the final countdown will begin at 10 a.m.
Monday.

Payload Processing Note: After reviewing test data from another Reaction
Wheel Assembly (RWA) at Goddard Space Flight Center, HST managers decided
late Friday they would not replace the Reaction Wheel Assembly currently
manifested for STS-109.

At the launch pad, the complement of HST flight hardware was installed into
Columbia's payload bay on Feb. 18.  Electrical connections with the orbiter
are now being established.  An interface verification test to verify those
connections is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 21.

An end-to-end test is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22.  This test will occur
between the flight hardware in Columbia's payload bay at KSC, the Space
Telescope Operations Control Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and
Mission Control in Houston.  This will verify the ability of controllers on
the ground to monitor the status of the flight hardware in the payload bay
while Columbia is on-orbit.  Payload closeouts are scheduled to begin next
weekend.  

An inspection of the HST flight hardware by the STS-109 astronauts is
planned for Monday, Feb. 25 and will followed afterward by closure of the
payload bay doors for flight.


MISSION: STS-110  - 13th ISS Flight (8A) - ITS SO TRUSS AND MOBILE
TRANSPORTER

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
    TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE: April 4, 2002 
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE: April 15, 2002  
MISSION DURATION: 11 days 
CREW: Bloomfield, Frick, Ross, Smith, Ochoa, Morin, Walheim 
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), Shuttle
Atlantis is undergoing final preparations for the STS-110 mission to the
International Space Station on April 4. Payload closeouts and Orbiter
Maneuvering System (OMS) crossfeed leak checks are in progress.

MISSION: STS-111 - 14th ISS flight (UF2) - MPLM

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: May 2, 2002
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE:  May 13, 2002
CREW: Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin; (ISS up) Korzun, Whitson,
Treschev; (ISS down) Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Orbiter Endeavour is in the OPF and work in
progress includes installing the drag parachute and continuing the Payload
Premate test. The Forward Reaction Control System (FRCS) will be installed
today and the Shuttle's three main engines tomorrow.

ORBITER MAINTENANCE AND MODIFICATION PERIOD
 
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103

Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery is in the OPF awaiting the start of its
Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period at the Kennedy Space Center that is
scheduled to begin late this summer. Preparations for APU lube oil
de-servicing are in work.
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