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

VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105

LAUNCH DATE: May 30, 2002

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: Shuttle Endeavour passed a major processing milestone today when it rolled out from its bay to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for space vehicle mate. Endeavour rolled out from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) shortly before 10 a.m. this morning.

Endeavour will be mated to the External Tank/Solid Rocket Boosters atop the Mobile Launcher Platform tomorrow and the Shuttle Interface Test will be conducted to verify space vehicle systems.

The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module has been delivered to Pad A and will be installed in the Payload Ground Handling Mechanism, awaiting the arrival of Endeavour at the pad.

MISSION STS-107 -SPACEHAB/ FREESTAR 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 deg

Shuttle Processing Note: Columbia is in an OPF bay undergoing processing operations for the STS-107 research mission in July. X-rays of the two Freon Coolant Loops are complete and mid-body bay closeouts are in progress. The Extended Duration Orbiter pallet that contains additional propellants for the fuel cells has been checked out and will be installed later this week. An engineering team is evaluating the status of a cold plate located in bay 5 after several small dings were discovered on the cold plate surface.

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: Shuttle Atlantis is back in its OPF bay after completing the STS-110 space station construction mission with a smooth landing at KSC last Friday. De-servicing operations have begun, and the residual power reactant fuel cell propellants were off-loaded over the weekend. Preparations are underway to remove the heat shield and main engines this week.

Official STS-110 Landing Times, (from April 19, 2002): 

Main Gear touchdown - 12:26:58 p.m.  	10 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 40 seconds MET
Nose Gear touchdown - 12:27:08 p.m. 	10 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, 50 seconds MET
Wheels Stop - 	       12:28:08 p.m  	10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes, 50 seconds MET

ORBITER MAJOR MODIFICATION PERIOD

VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103

Shuttle Processing Note: Discovery is in storage in the VAB, but will return to the OPF later this week. The Orbiter Major Modification Period is scheduled to begin the KSC late this summer.