KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   
SHUTTLE & PAYLOAD PROCESSING STATUS REPORT  
Thursday, May 9, 2002 (10:00 a.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-111 - 14th ISS Flight (UF2) - MPLM


VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LAUNCH DATE: May 30, 2002 
LAUNCH PERIOD: 4-8 p.m. EDT
KSC LANDING DATE:  June 11, 2002
MISSION DURATION: 11 days
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: At Pad A, technicians have completed the 
installation of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System replacement 
wrist joint as work continues for Endeavour's scheduled May 30 mission. 
Preparations for the Multi-Purpose Logistic Module interface verification test 
are in work and scheduled to begin tomorrow. Beginning Friday, technicians 
will verify the integrity of 13 connector savers in the orbiter T-0 umbilicals 
after inspections indicated that several of the connectors appeared to be 
loose.


MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH MISSION

VEHICLE - Columbia/OV-102
LAUNCH DATE: July 19, 2002
KSC LANDING DATE: August 4, 2002
MISSION DURATION: 16 days
CREW: Husband, McCool, Anderson, Chawla, Brown, Clark, Ramon
ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 150 nautical miles/39 
degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Work continues in the Orbiter Processing Facility 
(OPF) for Columbia's STS-107 microgravity research mission. Servicing of 
Freon Coolant Loop No. 2 is complete and preparations for the payload 
premate test are in work. Servicing of Freon Loop No. 1 is scheduled to start 
tomorrow.


MISSION STS-112 -- 15TH ISS FLIGHT (9A) - BA, ITS S1

VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LAUNCH DATE: August 22, 2002
KSC LANDING DATE: September 1, 2002
MISSION DURATION: 10 days 
CREW: Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin
ORBITAL ALTITUDE AND INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles, 51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Processing of Atlantis continues on schedule in the 
OPF for the August launch to the International Space Station.  Orbital 
Maneuvering System ckeckout and the Master Events Controller/Pyro 
Initiator test are underway. 

  
ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103

Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery is in the OPF awaiting the start of its 
Orbiter Major Modification (OMM) period that is scheduled to begin at the 
Kennedy Space Center late this summer. 

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