| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 871.1 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/24/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 27 1993 18:43 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, September 24, 1993
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB-2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Gain access to aft engine compartment
* Install platforms for orbiter access
* Post flight deconfiguration and checkouts
* Thermal protection system inspections and repairs
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Open payload bay doors
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
* Payload removal (ORFEUS/SPAS & TOS airborne support equipment)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Offload onboard cryogenic fuels
* Establish ground power to vehicle
* Main engine bearing drying operations
* Orbiter jack and leveling
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| 871.2 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/27/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 27 1993 18:44 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, September 27, 1993
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB-2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations for removing payloads
* Post flight deconfiguration and checkouts
* Thermal protection system inspections and repairs
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
* Payload removal (ORFEUS/SPAS & TOS airborne support equipment)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Offload onboard cryogenic fuels
* Establish ground power to vehicle
* Main engine bearing drying operations
* Orbiter jack and leveling
|
| 871.3 | Cosmonaut Flight?? | LANDO::STONE | | Tue Sep 28 1993 08:44 | 4 |
| Isn't this the flight with the guest cosmonaut on board? Also, I read
somewhere about a rendevous flight (not docking) to Mir being planned
for next year. Anyone have any details?
Thanks
|
| 871.4 | | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Tue Sep 28 1993 14:19 | 5 |
| Can anyone explain "Wake Shield Facility" or provide a pointer?
Thanks,
Burns
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| 871.5 | WSF: Wake Shield Facility | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Sep 28 1993 17:43 | 20 |
| Gee Burns, can't you make a guess from the name?! I did -- 100% dead wrong.
The goal of WSF is (deep breath):
Molecular and chemical beam epitaxy growth of compound semiconductors,
high temperature superconductors, and other materials using techniques
requiring ultra-high vacuum, high pumping speeds, and relatively large
working volumes.
(whew!)
I'm sure there will be a better explanation coming along in a couple of
months -- including how the above even remotely relates to the name (I have
a couple of guesses).
- dave
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| 871.6 | More on Wake Shield Facility | LHOTSE::DAHL | Customers do not buy architectures | Tue Sep 28 1993 17:54 | 6 |
| It's the shuttle orbiter's wake that the experiment is being shielded from.
There is a large, round, slightly conical structure to be trailed behind the
orbiter (in the sense of behind the velocity vector). This shield is to block
ambient atomic oxygen and orbiter emissions from the experiment package, which
sits behind the sheild.
-- Tom
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| 871.7 | Crew List | TROOA::SKLEIN | Nulli Secundus | Tue Sep 28 1993 19:59 | 26 |
|
> Isn't this the flight with the guest cosmonaut on board? Also, I read
> somewhere about a rendevous flight (not docking) to Mir being planned
> for next year. Anyone have any details?
Your right the crew is as follows:
STS 60 - Discovery (18) January 20 1994
- SPACEHAB-2; WSF-1 (Wake Shield Facility); GAS
- Commander: Charles Bolden (4)
- Pilot: Ken Reightler (2)
- MS1: Franklin Chang-Diaz (4)
- FE/MS2: Ronald Sega+
- MS3: Jan Davis (2)
- PS1: Sergei Krikalev (3) (RSA)
[backup Vladimir Titov (4) (RSA)]
This is a experienced crew, the only rookie being Ronald Sega.
Sergei Krikalev was announced as the prime PS some time ago,
with Titov being his backup. Titov himself is scheduled as prime
PS on mission STS 63 a few months later. I guess the RSA decided
if they are sending 2 experienced cosmonauts over, they should
get their money's worth by having both fly.
Susan
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| 871.8 | ? | STRATA::PHILLIPS | Music of the spheres. | Fri Oct 01 1993 10:53 | 7 |
| Re. .7
Does anyone know if Vladimir Titov is related to Gherman Titov, who,
riding in Vostok 2, was the fourth man to fly in space (after Gagarin,
Shepard and Grissom)?
--Eric--
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| 871.9 | RE 871.8 | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Fri Oct 01 1993 11:15 | 3 |
| See note 476.54. It doesn't directly answer your question, but
it does give some background on him.
|
| 871.10 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/30/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 04 1993 12:01 | 33 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, September 30, 1993
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB - 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Position body flap
* Main engine removal preparations
* Preparations to remove forward reaction control system
* Payload bay post flight and post payload deploy assessments
* Assess minor damage to remote manipulator system (robot arm)
* Deconfigure payload bay
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove forward reaction control system
* Offload hypergolic fuels
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
WORK COMPLETED:
* Open payload bay doors
* Payload removal (ORFEUS/SPAS & TOS airborne support equipment)
* Gain access to aft engine compartment
* Install platforms for orbiter access
* Post flight deconfiguration and checkouts
|
| 871.11 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/04/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 06 1993 09:55 | 35 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, October 4, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB - 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid-January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Inspections of orbiter's 17-inch disconnect
* Thermal protection system inspections and repairs
* Removal of fuel cells 2 and 3
* Removal of engine heat shields
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Deconfiguring of payload bay
* Removal of three main engines
* Removal of orbiter's Forward Reaction Control System
WORK COMPLETED:
* ORFEUS/SPAS payloads removed
* Dump of orbiter's flight recorder data
|
| 871.12 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/05/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 06 1993 09:56 | 37 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Tuesday, October 5, 1993 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
_________________________________________________
| |
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2 |
|__________________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine inspections and removal preparations
* Heatshield removal
* Payload bay post-flight and post-payload deploy assessments
* Deconfigure payload bay
* Preparations to remove and replace fuel cells 2 and 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove main engines
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Remove and replace fuel cells 2 and 3
WORK COMPLETED:
* Remove landing gear and tire assemblies
* Body flap checks
* Offload hypergolic fuels
|
| 871.13 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/07/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 10:29 | 35 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, October 7, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Remove main engines
* Deconfigure payload bay
* Leak checks of replacement fuel cells 2 and 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Remove rightside main landing gear wheel and tire assembly
* Ku-band integrated tests
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Inspections of 17-inch disconnect
* Main engine removal preparations
* Engine heatshield removal
* Remove and replace fuel cells 2 and 3
* Remove left side main landing gear wheel and tire assembly
|
| 871.14 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 10:30 | 35 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, October 8, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Continue post flight payload bay debris assessments
* Leak checks of replacement fuel cells 2 and 3
* Configure zero-G strongbacks for cycling payload bay doors
* Cycle external tank doors
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
* Humidity separator tests
* Radiator mechanical functional checks
* Fuel cell voltage checks
* Auxiliary power unit inspections
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Remove rightside main landing gear wheel and tire assembly
* Ku-band integrated tests
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Remove main engines and transport to Vehicle Assembly Building
* Remove and replace fuel cells 2 and 3
|
| 871.15 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/19/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 20 1993 10:23 | 38 |
| _______________________________________________________________
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, October 19, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Elevon flipper door checks
* Main landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Fuel cell single cell voltage checks
* Waterproofing of chin panel
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Ku-band integrated tests
* S-Band communication system checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Auxiliary power unit leak and functional tests
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Configure zero-G strongbacks for cycling payload bay doors
* Leak checks of replacement fuel cells 2 and 3
* Cycle external tank doors
* Drag chute check valve inspections
* Radiator mechanical functional checks
* Humidity separator tests
|
| 871.16 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/20/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 21 1993 09:52 | 35 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, October 20, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Auxiliary power unit (APU) leak and functional tests
* Elevon flipper door checks
* Power reactant storage and distribution system tests
* Main landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Waterproofing of chin panel
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Ku-band integrated tests
* S-Band communication system checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Resume stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in VAB high
bay 3 following rollover of Endeavour tomorrow
WORK COMPLETED:
* Fuel cell single cell voltage checks
* Preparations for APU leak and functional tests
|
| 871.17 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/21/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Oct 22 1993 10:19 | 38 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, October 21, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid/late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Power reactant storage and distribution system tests
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Auxiliary power unit (APU) leak and functional tests
* Elevon flipper door checks
* Main landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Waterproofing of chin panel
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove and replace thruster from left hand orbital maneuvering
system pod
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door cycle checks
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Resume stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in VAB high
bay 3 following rollover of Endeavour
WORK COMPLETED:
* Ku-band integrated tests
* S-Band communication system checks
|
| 871.18 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/25/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Oct 26 1993 09:16 | 40 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, October 25, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Nose landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Remove window number 2
* Auxiliary power unit (APU) leak and functional tests
* Test replaced thrusters
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Waterproofing of chin panel
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door cycle checks
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
WORK COMPLETED:
* Power reactant storage and distribution system tests
* Elevon flipper door checks
* Main landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Remove and replace thruster from left hand orbital maneuvering
system (OMS) pod
* OMS pod functional checks
|
| 871.19 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/26/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 27 1993 11:05 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, October 26, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door cycle checks
* S-Band communication system checks
* Test replaced thrusters
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install tunnel adapter
* Preparations to re-install forward reaction control system
* Integrated drag chute installation
WORK COMPLETED:
* Auxiliary power unit leak and functional tests
* Nose landing gear wheel, tire assembly and brake replacement
* Waterproofing of chin panel
* Power reactant storage and distribution system tests
* Remove and replace thruster from left hand orbital maneuvering
system (OMS) pod
|
| 871.20 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/27/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 28 1993 09:06 | 35 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, October 27, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* S-Band communication system checks
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Waste management post-flight servicing
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install tunnel adapter
* Preparations to re-install forward reaction control system
* Integrated drag chute installation
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door cycle checks
* Test and leak check replaced thrusters
* Auxiliary power unit leak and functional tests
|
| 871.21 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/01/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 02 1993 08:43 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, November 1, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Payload bay cleaning prior to installation of tunnel adapter
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Install tunnel adapter
* Preparations to install forward reaction control system (FRCS)
* Transfer FRCS to OPF for installation on orbiter and interface
verification checks
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door closeouts
* Preparations to install SPACEHAB
* Preparations to transfer Wake Shield Facility to the Vertical
Processing Facility
WORK COMPLETED:
* Rudder speed brake and body flap checks
* Raise nose landing gear
* Replace thruster on OMS pod
* Integrated drag chute installation
|
| 871.22 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/03/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Nov 05 1993 08:36 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, November 3, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Body flap actuator checks
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door closeouts
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Install tunnel adapter
* Preparations to install forward reaction control system (FRCS)
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Payload interface checks
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install FRCS and interface verification checks
* Checks on orbiter door radiators
* Preparations to install SPACEHAB
* Preparations to transfer Wake Shield Facility to the Vertical
Processing Facility
WORK COMPLETED:
* Transfer FRCS to OPF
* Preparations to install tunnel adapter
* Payload bay cleaning prior to installation of tunnel adapter
|
| 871.23 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/04/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Nov 05 1993 08:38 | 40 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, November 4, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Body flap actuator checks
* Tunnel adapter/crew module leak checks
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Preparations to install forward reaction control system (FRCS)
* Water spray boiler checkout and servicing
* Payload interface checks
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install FRCS and interface verification checks
* Checks on orbiter door radiators
* Preparations to transport SPACEHAB to OPF and install in
orbiter's payload bay
WORK COMPLETED:
* Install tunnel adapter
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door closeouts
* Transfer FRCS to OPF
* Transfer Wake Shield Facility to Vertical Processing Facility
|
| 871.24 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 09 1993 09:02 | 37 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, November 8, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Body flap actuator checks
* Tunnel adapter/crew module leak checks
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Preparations to install forward reaction control system (FRCS)
* Water spray boiler servicing and decay leak checks
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
* Interface Verification Test of Wake Shield Facility
WORK SCHEDULED THIS WEEK:
* Install FRCS and interface verification checks
* Checks on orbiter door radiators
* Orbital maneuvering system flight control verifications
* Preparations to transport SPACEHAB to OPF and install in
orbiter's payload bay next Monday
WORK COMPLETED:
* Install tunnel adapter
* Payload bay radiator mechanical functional checks
|
| 871.25 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/09/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Nov 10 1993 13:17 | 38 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, November 9, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/51 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Body flap actuator checks
* Tunnel adapter/crew module leak checks
* Flight control aerosurface checkouts
* Main propulsion system leak and functional tests
* Preparations to install forward reaction control system (FRCS)
* Stacking right-hand solid rocket boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install FRCS and interface verification checks
* Checks on orbiter door radiators
* Orbital maneuvering system flight control verifications
* Preparations to transport SPACEHAB to OPF and install in
orbiter's payload bay next Monday
WORK COMPLETED:
* Install tunnel adapter
* Payload bay radiator mechanical functional checks
* Interface Verification Test of Wake Shield Facility
|
| 871.26 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/15/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 16 1993 09:09 | 37 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, November 15, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: mid January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hour/48 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Install SPACEHAB into orbiter's payload bay
* Forward reaction control system (FRCS) interface verification
tests
* Orbital maneuvering system flight control verifications
* Preparations to install main engines
* Stacking solid rocket booster in Vehicle Assembly Building
high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Ammonia servicing
* Main engine installation
* Orbital maneuvering system flight redundancy checks
WORK COMPLETED:
* FRCS installation and interface verification checks
* Checks on orbiter door radiators
* Transport SPACEHAB to OPF
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| 871.27 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/18/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Nov 19 1993 09:20 | 34 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, November 18, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hour/48 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine installation
* Potable water servicing
* SPACEHAB interface verification tests
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbital maneuvering system flight redundancy checks and
redundant electrical circuit verifications
* Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
WORK COMPLETED:
* Stacking of solid rocket booster in VAB
* Ammonia servicing
* Preparations to install main engines
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| 871.28 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/23/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 23 1993 16:28 | 35 |
| _______________________________________________________________
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, November 23, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/48 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter aft engine compartment and midbody closeouts
* Main engine securing
* Checkout of water spray boiler system
* Freon coolant loop accumulator adjustments
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
* Remote manipulator system verifications
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbital maneuvering system flight redundancy checks and
redundant electrical circuit verifications
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| 871.29 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/24/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Nov 24 1993 18:39 | 35 |
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, November 24, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
__________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: late January CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 3 hours/48 minutes LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Remote manipulator system verifications
* Orbiter aft engine compartment and midbody closeouts
* Checkout of water spray boiler system
* Heatshield installation
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Mate external tank to solid rocket boosters in VAB high bay 3
(Mate set to occur on Monday)
* Power down vehicle for Thanksgiving Holidays
WORK COMPLETED:
* Main engine securing
* Freon coolant loop accumulator adjustments
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| 871.30 | DISCOVERY part recovered from landfill | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Dec 16 1993 22:50 | 32 |
| Article: 3652
From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.gov.agency,clari.local.florida
Subject: Shuttle part found in landfill
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 13:42:33 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- A $300,000 part for the space shuttle
Discovery was found discarded in a landfill last month but was retrieved
and installed on the orbiter, Kennedy Space Center officials confirmed
Wednesday.
NASA spokesman Mitch Varnes said a panel that goes on the leading
edge of one of the shuttle's wings was at the landfill for only four
hours before it was discovered.
``It was found in a landfill Nov. 5 in a crate that was inadvertantly
taken down there,'' Varnes said. ``No harm was ever done and it has been
put on Discovery.''
The crate was found by a recycling manager, Varnes said.
``He routinely looks for that kind of material,'' Varnes said.
The crate was taken to the landfill after a sweep of an area of the
space center was made to prepare for an open house.
``It was an unfortunate incident that shouldn't have occurred,''
Varnes said. ``We caught it, and no harm was done, and we have made
corrective measures.''
He said the landfill is no longer accepting unopened crates.
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| 871.31 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 12/17/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Dec 21 1993 09:33 | 42 |
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, December 17, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
___________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 sm
LOCATION: OPF bay 3 INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: February 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Feb. 11/12:39 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
NOTE: The current schedule calls for Discovery to be transferred
to the Vehicle Assembly Building on January 4 and then to pad A
on January 10. The payload will be sent to the pad on January 6.
The terminal countdown demonstration test is currently scheduled
for January 13-14 and the Flight Readiness Review on January 20.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Begin reaction control system thruster testing in OPF
* Repressurize main landing gear tires
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
* Repressurize nose landing gear tires
* Cabin heat exchanger inspections
* Lower vehicle to floor on nose and main landing gear
* Final thermal protection system inspections
* Orbiter power down for holidays
WORK COMPLETED:
* Pneumatic system decay checks
* Establish orbital maneuvering system (OMS) trickle purge
* Install Wake Shield Facility into payload canister
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| 871.32 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 01/05/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jan 06 1994 09:31 | 43 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1994
KSC Contact: Lisa Malone
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: VAB INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: Feb. 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. EST LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 6 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Hoist orbiter into position next to external tank and solid rocket boosters
* Mate orbiter to external tank and solid rocket boosters
WORK COMPLETED:
* The orbiter's hoist and mate activities were delayed today while technicians
replaced the orbiter's liquid hydrogen external tank socket attach point called
a "salad bowl." The 10 1/2 inch sphere is one of two aft structural attach
points between orbiter and tank. Hoisting operations were put on hold about
2:45 a.m. today when 8 of the 70 ground clips surrounding the socket were bent
during the lift.
* Transfer of Discovery to the VAB was completed yesterday after engineers
determined that the popping sound heard after retraction of the landing gear
was produced when the gear settled into position once retracted. There are no
technical concerns with the gears. First motion of Discovery out of high bay 3
came at 5:46 p.m. and the vehicle was in the VAB transfer aisle by 6:16 p.m.
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Wake Shield Facility payload arrives at Pad A Thursday morning
* Rollout to Pad 39A Jan. 10
* Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test on Jan. 13-14
* Flight Readiness Review now set for Jan. 25
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| 871.33 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 01/10/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Jan 11 1994 14:11 | 36 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, January 10, 1994
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
___________________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 sm
LOCATION: En route to pad A INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: February 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Feb. 11/12:39 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Transfer shuttle vehicle to pad 39-A (1st motion occurred at about
7:30 a.m. today)
* Launch pad validations
* Close rotating service structure at about 5 p.m.
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Main engine flight readiness test
* Open payload bay doors and install payload
* Solid rocket booster hydraulic power-up and tests
* Crew arrival for countdown demonstration test (about 5 p.m. Tuesday)
* Terminal countdown demonstration test (Thursday and Friday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Shuttle interface verification test
* Electrical connections between orbiter and external tank
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| 871.34 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 01/12/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jan 13 1994 09:16 | 93 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, January 12, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes 407/867-2468 (fax: 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/ OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 sm
LOCATION: Pad 39-A INCLINATION: 57 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: February 3 CREW SIZE: 6
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/ 5 hours WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine Flight Readiness Test
* Electrical and mechanical connections of Wake Shield Facility
* Emergency training of crew at launch pad and adjacent areas
* Preparations for start of Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT)
countdown
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Firing room TCDT call to stations and start of countdown set for 8
a.m. tomorrow
* TCDT to continue throughout Thursday and conclude at 11 a.m. Friday
with a simulated ignition of Discovery's main engines
WORK COMPLETED:
* Astronauts arrived at KSC yesterday evening
* Wake Shield Facility installed into Discovery's payload bay
* Shuttle/Launch Pad interface test
* Solid Rocket Booster Flight Readiness Test
========================================================================
PAYLOAD STATUS REPORT
for STS-60: Wake Shield Facility/Spacehab 2/Gas Bridge
January 11, 1994
George H Diller
Kennedy Space Center
407/867-2468
The Wake Shield Facility achieves its next milestone today
toward its upcoming launch in early February as it is placed into
Discovery's payload bay at Launch Pad 39 A. Also being installed
into the payload bay today is the Get Away Special bridge or GAS
Bridge Assembly (GBA) which contains the Capillary Pumped Loop
Experiment, the Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Spheres Project
(ODERACS) and the University of Bremen Satellite (BREMSAT).
Mounted on the GAS bridge are also four other Getaway Special
experiment canisters.
The payload installation is being performed by NASA,
McDonnell Douglas, and Lockheed engineers and technicians and
should be complete by late this afternoon.
The next event for the Wake Shield Facility is the Interface
Verification Test (IVT) to verify the connections between the
payload and Discovery, and the associated connections to the
orbiter flight deck which is scheduled to occur on January 18.
This will be followed by the IVT for the Gas Bridge Assembly on
January 21.
The Wake Shield Facility will take advantage of the near
vacuum of space to attempt to grow innovative thin film materials
for use in electronics. It will be deployed by the remote
manipulator arm, and fly in formation with Discovery at a
distance of up to 46 statute miles from the orbiter for 56 hours.
It will then be retrieved from space, again using the remote
manipulator arm.
The ODERACS experiment will deploy six small spheres between
2 and 6 inches in diameter which will be tracked from the ground
by radars and optical telescopes. The purpose is to test and
calibrate equipment which may be used for tracking space debris.
BREMSAT is a small deployable satellite which will conduct a
half dozen experiments including mapping of atomic oxygen,
analysis of the quality of the space microgravity environment,
measuring the density of micrometorites and dust particles in
low Earth orbit, and finally measuring pressure and heat during
its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
The Spacehab II laboratory module was installed into the
payload bay while Discovery was in the Orbiter Processing
Facility. While some experiments are already onboard, the time
critical life sciences and materials science processing
experiments will be place into the module at launch minus 35
hours, which is currently on the evening of February 1.
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| 871.35 | Cosmonaut Krikalev, first Russian on the Shuttle | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Jan 20 1994 12:36 | 79 |
| Article: 6513
From: [email protected] (PAULA DITTRICK)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.hot.ussr
Subject: First Russian to fly on Feb. 3 shuttle mission
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 17:04:47 PST
SPACE CENTER HOUSTON (UPI) -- The first Russian slated to fly on the
shuttle said Wednesday his biggest challenge was learning the English
language at the same time he was learning the shuttle systems.
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, 34, and five astronauts are scheduled for
a Feb. 3 launch aboard the shuttle Discovery for an eight-day mission.
The mission is commanded by Charles Bolden. The other astronauts are
Kenneth Reightler, N. Jan Davis, Ronald Sega and Franklin Chang-Diaz.
The mission's objectives include microgravity experiments and the use
of the Wake Shield to creat a vacuum in which to produce semiconductor
thin film crystals.
Krikalev will use the shuttle's robotic arm to move about the Wake
Shield, a satellite. The Soviet space program has a couple of simple
arms, but nothing like a robot arm.
``I wanted that job because it's interesting. It's complicated and
it's a new experience. The control of the arm is about the same as
flying,'' he said.
Krikalev already has logged more than one year and three months in
space, including seven space walks, through the Soviet space program.
Only one other person, a former cosmonaut, has spent more time in space
than has Krikalev.
He and cosmonaut Vladimir Titov have spent about a year training in
the United States. Titov has been assigned to a 1995 shuttle mission.
Krikalev said he studied English in school but he had never had to
use it in conversation until coming to the United States. He had
language coaches at Johnson Space Center.
Krikalev now speaks English well enough to answer reporters'
questions without need for an interpreter.
``I think the biggest difficulty was language because we had no time
before we started training,'' Krikalev said of himself and Titov. The
families of the commonauts are living in the Houston area while the two
men train.
``My wife is staying most of the time at home unfortunately because
she did not know one word of English when we arrived...It was a
difficult year for me and my family, but it was very interesting because
I studied a lot,'' Krikalev said at a crew news conference Tuesday. The
Kirkalevs have a 3-year-old daughter.
The mission is the first joint U.S./Russia space project since the
U.S. Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz docked in orbit during 1975. It's the
first time an astronaut and cosmonaut will have flown on the same
spacecraft.
``It's the beginning of this kind of activity,'' Krikalev said of
international space exploration, adding he hopes someday to participate
in the international space station project.
In December, Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor
S. Chernomyrdin agreed Russia will join the international space station
project. The two countries also signed a space cooperation agreement.
It was at a 1991 Moscow summit that U.S. and Soviet leaders first
agreed an astronaut will fly aboard the Soviet space station Mir and a
cosmonaut will fly on a shuttle.
Krikalev downplays the idea of being a celebrity, saying he is
concentrating on his training.
``I'm still not thinking about it. I'm trying to be ready,''
Krikalev said, adding he is unsure if he will be considered a hero in
his homeland. ``I haven't flown yet. I'm not sure. People are very
busy now. Everyone has a lot of problems,'' he said.
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| 871.36 | Calling STS-60 and MIR | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Jan 27 1994 14:21 | 137 |
| From: US1RMC::"[email protected]" "John Magliacane" 24-JAN-1994 14:50:04.58
To: [email protected]
CC:
Subj: * SpaceNews 24-Jan-94 *
SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0124
* SpaceNews 24-Jan-94 *
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SpaceNews
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MONDAY JANUARY 24, 1994
SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is
published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution.
* STS-60 AST
===========================================
Astronauts Charles F. Bolden, Jr. of Columbia, South Carolina and Ronald M.
Sega of Seabrook, Texas, have been issued amateur radio call signs in
preparation for their joint U.S.-Russia science mission. The Spacehab
science objectives are primarily micro-gravity oriented with emphasis on
materials and life science.
Bolden, KE4IQB is commander of the space shuttle Discovery (OV-103) due for
lift off on February 3, 1994, at 12:10 UTC from Cape Kennedy. Sega (now
KC5ETH) is the second of four Mission Specialists. They plan to contact
several schools as part of the SAREX program - including one in Russia.
The flight of STS-60 represents an historic first, the first of several
joint U.S.-Russian Space Shuttle flights planned in preparation for the
development of the international Space Station. Veteran cosmonaut Sergei
Krikalev, U5MIR, was chosen to be the first Russian to fly on the U.S. Space
Shuttle. During the 8 day flight, Cosmonaut Krikalev will support the
science operations on the Space Shuttle as Mission Specialist 4.
Last year, Sergei attended the Dallas Ham-Com convention and told us he
would try to qualify for a U.S. license - but his training duties have
prevented him from doing so. Since no reciprocal operating privileges exist
between Russia and the United States, Sergei will operate amateur radio
under Bolden's control operator authority. The possibility also exists for
the first U.S. Space Shuttle to Mir Space Station (Russian astronaut-to-
Russian cosmonaut) amateur radio contact!
Three new Russian amateurs were launched on January 8, 1994 aboard a Soyuz
rocket and docked at the MIR space station on January 10th. The new crew
includes Viktor Afanasiev (commander) U9MIR, Yuri Usachev (flight engineer)
R3MIR and Valerij Polyakov (doctor) U3MIR. They are using the call sign
R0MIR on packet.
[Info via Fred, W5YI]
* SUPERBALL 1-94 UPDATE *
=========================
The attempt to recover the SuperBall 1-94 balloon and payload on Saturday
15-Jan-94 failed. Numerous troubles plagued the effort and they basically
just ran out of day-light and had to turn back. Another attempt was made
on the 16th) which was successful! All of the critical elements of the
craft were recovered.
Preliminary reports indicate that another launch will take place in about
a month's time.
[Info via Kris Nosack, N7SHV]
* STS-60 SAREX INFO *
=====================
Mission: STS-60 Space Shuttle Discovery
Vehicle: OV-103/Discovery
Wake Shield Facility & Spacehab-2 Mission
Launch: February 3, 1994, 12:10 UTC from KSC Pad A
Landing site: KSC
Orbit: 57 degree inclination
Orbital altitude: 218 sm
Mission Length: 8 days (Nominal)
Crew size: 6
Amateur Radio Operators: Charlie Bolden (License Pending), Ron Sega
(License Pending), Sergei Krikalev, U5MIR
Modes: FM Voice
Prime callsign: To be provided once Commander Bolden's callsign is known
Packet Radio: Callsign W5RRR-1
Frequencies: All operations in split mode. Do not transmit on
the downlink frequency.
Voice Freqs: Downlink: 145.55 MHz (Worldwide)
Uplinks: 144.91, 144.93, 144.95, 144.97,
144.99 MHz (Except Europe)
144.70, 144.75, 144.80 MHz (Europe only)
Note: The crew will not favor any specific uplink frequency, so your ability
to work the crew will be the "luck of the draw."
Packet Freqs: Downlink: 145.55 MHz
Uplink: 144.49 MHz
[Info via KA3HDO]
* CORRECTION *
==============
The next STS mission is STS-60, not STS-58 as indicated in last week's issue
of SpaceNews.
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| 871.37 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 01/28/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Jan 31 1994 17:41 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, Jan. 28, 1994
KSC Contact: Lisa Malone 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: PAD 39A INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: Feb. 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. EST LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 6 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
* Launch countdown preparations
* Purges of the external tank
* Close outs of the aft compartment
* Preparations to replace an exterior window on the pilot's side of the
crew module (See note.)
* Routine checks of the leak and fire detectors at the launch pad
WORK COMPLETED:
* Flushed thrusters for the reaction control system and orbital
maneuvering system
* Leak checked main engines
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install doors on aft compartment at midnight tonight
* Start launch countdown at 4 a.m. EST Monday, Jan. 31
* STS-60 crew arrival at 2:30 p.m. Monday
* Complete window replacement by Monday evening
Note: Last night, Discovery's hard window covers were removed for final
inspections and cleaning. A small ding was discovered in window no. 6 (on
the pilot's side). It was determined this morning that the window will be
replaced. This work will be performed this weekend and Monday, and is not
expected to delay the launch.
|
| 871.38 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 02/01/94 -- L-2 Days | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Feb 01 1994 19:01 | 100 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Tuesday, February 1, 1994 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
___________________________________________________________
| |
| MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2 |
| |
| LAUNCH MINUS 2 DAYS |
|___________________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 sm
LOCATION: Pad 39A INCLINATION: 57.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: February 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Feb. 11/12:42 p.m.
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/5 hours/32 minutes
NOTE: The countdown for Discovery's launch continues as planned today.
The pad was cleared late last night and until about 8 a.m. this morning
for the planned pyrotechnic initiator control resistance test and for the
loading of the onboard cryogenic tanks with the liquid hydrogen and
liquid oxygen reactants. These reactants provide electricity to the
orbiter while in space and drinking water for the crew.
Today the orbiter mid-body umbilical unit is being demated. Orbiter
communications activation and final vehicle and facility closeouts are
also underway.
Tomorrow, preparations will be made to retract the rotating service
structure to launch position at about 11 a.m. Tanking is scheduled to
begin at about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday.
Forecasters indicate a 30 percent probability of weather prohibiting
launch. The primary concerns are marginally low temperatures. On launch
morning, the winds at the pad are expected to be from the northwest at 7
- 10 knots; temperature 44 - 46 degrees F; visibility 7 miles; and clouds
scattered at 2,000 and 10,000 feet and broken at 25,000 feet. The 24-
hour-delay forecast reveals a similar forecast and lists a 40 percent
chance of violation.
The six-member astronaut crew for this mission arrived at KSC's Shuttle
Landing Facility Monday at about 2:30 p.m. Today they will be involved
with checking out their mission plans and fit checks of their equipment.
They are scheduled for some free time this morning and will be ready for
sleep at about 6 p.m. They will be awakened again at about 2 a.m.
tomorrow.
_______________________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF HOLDS AND HOLD TIMES FOR STS-60 |
|_______________________________________________________|
T-TIME ------- LENGTH OF HOLD ---- HOLD BEGINS ---- HOLD ENDS
T-27 hours --- 4 hours ----------- 8 pm Mon.------ 12 mid. Mon.
T-19 hours --- 4 hours ----------- 8 am Tues.----- 12 noon Tues.
T-11 hours --- 20 hrs.,50 mins. -- 8 pm Tues.----- 4:50 pm Wed.
T-6 hours ---- 1 hour ------------ 9:50 pm Wed.--- 10:50 pm Wed.
T-3 hours ---- 2 hours ----------- 1:50 am Thurs.- 3:50 am Thurs.
T-20 minutes - 10 minutes -------- 6:30 am Thurs.- 6:40 am Thurs.
T-9 minutes -- 10 minutes -------- 6:51 am Thurs.- 7:01 am Thurs.
________________________________________
| |
| CREW FOR MISSION FOR STS-60 |
|________________________________________|
Commander (CDR): Charles F. Bolden
Pilot (PLT): Kenneth S. Reightler
Mission Specialist (MS1): N. Jan Davis
Mission Specialist (MS2): Ronald M. Sega
Mission Specialist (MS3): Franklin R. Chang-Diaz
Mission Specialist (MS4): Sergei K. Krikalev
__________________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF STS-60 LAUNCH DAY CREW ACTIVITIES |
|__________________________________________________|
Thursday, Feb. 3, 1994
2:15 a.m. Wake up
2:45 a.m. Breakfast
3:15 a.m. Weather briefing (CDR, PLT, MS2)
3:15 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS1, MS3, MS4)
3:25 a.m. Don flight equipment (CDR, PLT, MS2)
3:55 a.m. Depart for launch pad 39-B
4:25 a.m. Arrive at white room and begin ingress
5:40 a.m. Close crew hatch
7:10 a.m. Launch
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| 871.39 | Installation of time-critical experiments... | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Feb 01 1994 19:02 | 64 |
|
George H. Diller February 1, 1994
407/867-2468
KSC Release No. 6-94
INSTALLATION OF TIME CRITICAL SPACEHAB-2 AND STS-60 MID-DECK
EXPERIMENTS SCHEDULED ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Final payload prelaunch preparations begin tonight at Pad A
on Complex 39 with the late stowage of time critical experiments
aboard SPACEHAB-2 and will continue on Wednesday on Discovery's
mid-deck.
The Spacehab module will be powered up for flight at 5 p.m.
today. Then, at Launch minus 33.5 hours which is at 9:40 p.m.,
Spacehab-2 stowage activities will begin with the "MVAK"
operation, which stands for Module Vertical Access Kit.
Specially trained technicians from Spacehab Incorporated owned by
of McDonnell Douglas, will be lowered down inside the Spacehab-2
module.
To be installed by the technicians are ASTROCULTURE, an
experiment to validate the performance of plant growth
technologies in the microgravity environment of space, and ORSEP,
an organic separation of cells and polymers experiment which
could produce a pure laboratory materials sample not achievable
in gravity. An Interface Verification Test (IVT) for each
experiment will follow.
Next support equipment will be installed aboard Spacehab-2
for two experiments which are located on Discovery's mid-deck.
the Commerical Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) and the
Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG) experiment. Also
undergoing installation at this time is the support equipment
necessary for the Stirling Orbiter Refrigerator Freezer unit
(SORF). In addition, Spacehab 2 Flight Data File to be used by
the astronauts will be installed, and the Three Dimensional
Microgravity Accelerometer (3-DMA) and the SORF will be powered
on for flight. Conclusion of the Spacehab-2 MVAC activities is
nominally scheduled for 2:40 a.m. on Wednesday morning at the
Launch minus 28.5 hour mark in the countdown.
Approximately 7 1/2 hours later, the mid-deck stowage
operations will follow. This will include the installation of
the actual CGBA and CPCG experiments and will be followed by a
brief Interface Verification Test (IVT). Then the Bioserve Pilot
Laboratory (BPL) experiment trays will be installed. This
experiment is designed to mix sample fluids to gather biomedical
and fluid science data. This will be followed by installation of
the experiment trays for CGBA.
Next to be placed into the mid-deck will be:
Immunology-Mission 1 (Immune-1) consisting of 12 rodents for the
study of a drug to suppress reduction in the immune system; Penn
State Biomodule (PSB) to study biological systems and chemical
reactions under the influence of microgravity.
This activity should be complete at 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday,
or Launch minus 14.5 hours, concluding the STS-60 MVAC
activities.
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| 871.40 | STS-60 Press Kit available | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Feb 02 1994 09:06 | 17 |
| The STS-60 press kit is (finally) available:
pragma::public:[nasa]sts-60.ps (27 pages)
NASA didn't release this a month ahead as usual -- they let it go last week
(while I was on vacation). I spent an hour or two reworking it last
night (laptops is great), but it isn't up to the usual quality standards.
Seeing as it might light up tomorrow, I felt this was a good compromise.
An equally cheap hypertext version will be up on the Web later today -- if I can
eek out a few minutes during a build or something -- these AXP systems don't
give one many "extra minutes" anymore :-(
- dave
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| 871.41 | Launch ok..performance nominal | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Thu Feb 03 1994 08:44 | 5 |
| Up up and away...the launch went off right on time at 7:10 EST, and was fine
until CNN cut away a minute or so after SRB Sep. A half hour later, they were
showing clips of the kosmonaut, so they must have reached orbit ok.
Burns
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| 871.42 | Image requests for STS-60 | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Feb 03 1994 12:04 | 86 |
| From: US1RMC::"[email protected]" "VOLCANO" 2-FEB-1994 16:06:56.89
To: Multiple recipients of list VOLCANO <[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: Space Shuttle launch/Earth photos
Space Shuttle Photos
Space Shuttle flight STS-60 is scheduled to launch 12:10 GMT (7:10 AM
EST) February 3, 1994 and will last for 8 days. As usual, the
astronauts will be taking hand-held color and color infrared
photography of the Earth as part of the Space Shuttle Earth
Observations Project (SSEOP). A Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev,
will fly on board the Shuttle, and one of the experiments onboard is
joint US-Russian Earth Observations. Thus, we anticipate collecting
much imagery over Asia.
The purpose of this message is to solicit suggestions for potential
sites (on-going research projects) to be photographed during the
mission. Please send your suggestions, including site latitude and
longitude, feature or phenomena of interest, and brief (one or two
lines) description of your project to:
[email protected] (Internet)
C.EVANS.LESC or PHOTO.REQUEST (Omnet)
If you have made requests for previous flights, you must resubmit your
suggestion.
The orbit and camera/film/lens parameters for the mission are as follows:
Altitude: 190 nm. (350 km)
Inclination: 57 degrees (that means the Shuttle will pass over areas
between 57 N and 57 S).
This is a 1-shift mission, so part of the world (south and
eastern Asia and parts of the western and central Pacific) will not be
illuminated while the crew is awake. There will be good opportunities
over the much of North and South America .(including Alaska, and if
the launch is on time, Patagonia), Africa, Europe and western/central
Asia, and Kamchatka. If the launch is delayed by an hour, the
illumination in the far southern hemisphere is lost, and the northern
hemisphere will have higher sun angles.
Equipment:
Camera/Lens/Film: 70 mm Hasselblad with 50, 100, and 250 mm lenses. A
near-vertical Hasselblad photograph using the 250 mm lens will cover an area
roughly 77km by 77 km. The majority of film will be Ektachrome 64 color
transparency, although there will be some 70 mm color infrared film., as
well as a high resolution color infrared film from Russia.
While SSEOP cannot guarantee that suggested sites will be collected, all
suggestions will be given serious consideration. Earth photography is
dependent upon other mission activities (including sleep periods), orbit
track, Shuttle orientation, available film, and cloud cover (although
clouds may be a target).
Should the photography be collected, you will be notified and the photography
may then be ordered through the Technology Application Center in Albuquerque
(505-277-3622). Realize that it may be some time before the distribution
centers receive their copies of the film from which they make their products.
After the flight, I will post a listing of the significant photography, with
your specific requests in mind. The posted list will be based on our initial
"quick-look" screening of the film and will not be all-inclusive. As soon as
the film is cataloged, the specific information will be accessible on the SSEOP
database. If you wish to query the database for earlier photography from the
Shuttle (or Skylab or Gemini), you can access it (via internet) as follows:
TELNET SSEOP.JSC.NASA.GOV
enter PHOTOS at the "username" and "password" prompts.
Cindy Evans
[email protected]
Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project
Johnson Space Center
Houston TX
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% Date: Wed, 02 Feb 1994 12:23:09 -0700 (MST)
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% Subject: Space Shuttle launch/Earth photos
% Sender: VOLCANO <[email protected]>
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| 871.43 | Shuttle launch and stats | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Feb 03 1994 13:43 | 96 |
| Article: 6718
From: [email protected] (IRENE BROWN, UPI Science Writer)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.hot.ussr
Subject: Shuttle Discovery blasts off
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 5:00:40 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Shuttle Discovery and six astronauts,
including a veteran Russian cosmonaut, blasted off Thursday morning for
an eight-day research flight, opening a new chapter in U.S.-Russian
space relations.
Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 15 months in space aboard the Mir
station, headed into orbit for his third mission, this time on the space
shuttle Discovery. The mission is the first leg of an ambitious and still-
evolving plan to integrate the U.S. and Russian manned space programs.
``This is a very important (step) for United States and Russia...and
for manned spaceflight,'' Russian space agency director Yuri Koptev told
the crew shortly before blastoff.
Koptev and NASA administrator Dan Goldin spoke to the crew from the
Kennedy Space Center's launch control room, before heading out to a
guest viewing site to watch Discovery's thundering climb into orbit.
The shuttle lifted off on-time at 7:10 a.m. (1210 gmt), soaring
through partly cloudy skies as it arced over the Atlantic Ocean toward
an orbit 219 miles (352 km) above the planet.
Strapped inside the crew cabin with Krikalev, 35, were commander
Charles Bolden, 47, co-pilot Kenneth Reightler, 42, flight engineer
Ronald Sega, 41, payload commander Franklin Chang-Diaz, 43, and
astronaut Jan Davis, 40.
During the mission, the crew planned to deploy and retrieve a
prototype space manufacturing facility, the Wake Shield Facility,
designed to carve out an extremely pristine environment in space to grow
experimental semiconductor materials.
The astronauts also are scheduled to oversee a dozen microgravity and
life science experiments in a Spacehab laboratory module, anchored in
Discovery's cargo bay and connected to the crew cabin by a short tunnel.
Krikalev, an ace test pilot and honored spaceflight engineer, planned
to participate in several medical experiments during the mission, as
well as operate the shuttle's robot arm during retrieval of the Wake
Shield Facility.
Article: 2138
From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.aviation,clari.tw.aerospace
Subject: Shuttle Discovery on its 18th flight
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 4:23:46 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Discovery's launch on the 60th shuttle
mission marks the 35th post-Challenger flight and the first of eight
missions planned for 1994. Here are the mission details at-a-glance:
-Space shuttle: Discovery, making its 18th flight. Discovery last
flew in September to deploy NASA's Advanced Communication Technology
Satellite, deploy and retrieve a Shuttle Pallet Satellite and conduct
scientific research.
-Mission highlights: First Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the space
shuttle; demonstrate a new technology to create an ultra-vacuum for
growing materials in weightlessness.
-Launch site: Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center.
-Launch time: 7:10 a.m. EST (1210 gmt), Feb. 3, 1994.
-Propulsion: Three hydrogen-fueled main engines built by Rocketdyne
of Canoga Park, Calif., serial numbers 2012 (No. 1), 2034 (No. 2), and
2032 (No. 3), and two solid-fuel boosters, serial number BI-062, built
by Thiokol Corp. of Ogden, Utah. Discovery is bolted to a Martin
Marietta-built external fuel tank, serial No. 61.
-Orbital altitude: 219 statute miles (352 km).
-Inclination to equator: 57 degrees.
-Payload: Wake Shield Facility, Spacehab 2, getaway special (GAS)
assembly containing six experiments including Orbital Debris Radar
Calibration Spheres and the University of Bremen Satellite.
-Landing: 12:42 p.m. EST (1742 gmt) Feb. 11 at the Kennedy Space
Center, Fla.
-Shuttle crew: Six.
-Commander: Charles Bolden, 47, Columbia, S.C.; fourth flight.
-Co-pilot: Kenneth Reightler, 42, Virginia Beach, Va.; second flight.
-Flight engineer: Ronald Sega, 41, Northfield, Ohio and Colorado
Springs, Col.; first flight.
-Payload commander Franklin Chang-Diaz, 43, San Jose, Costa Rica;
fourth flight.
--Mission specialist: cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, 35, St. Petersburg,
Russia; first flight on the shuttle and two flights to the Russian space
station Mir covering more than 15 months in orbit.
--Mission specialist: N. Jan Davis, 40, Huntsville, Ala.; second
flight.
-Crew seating: Bolden, Reightler, Sega and Davis on Discovery's
flight deck for launch, with Krikalev and Chang-Diaz on the middeck.
During landing, Davis and Krikalev will change places.
-Contingency spacewalk personnel: Davis and Chang-Diaz.
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| 871.44 | Wanted: Elements | TROOA::BALDOCK | Chris Baldock | Thu Feb 03 1994 17:40 | 7 |
| Can anyone post the orbital elements for this mission. It's not very
often that we get a chance to see a shuttle pass overhead here in
Canada.
Thanks.
Chris
|
| 871.45 | STS-60 elements | BCFI::GIMLE | Bj�rn Gimle @VLB | Fri Feb 04 1994 06:39 | 17 |
| STS-60
1 22977U 94006A 94034.83608359 .00009892 00000-0 73754-4 0 65
2 22977 56.9877 214.6433 0008454 260.2412 180.1157 15.72140508 64
Source: Rancho Palo Verdes space BBS, 310-541-7299 2400-14400 bps
Dave Ransom
>> ... It is not often we get a chance...
I sympathize with you, living near Stocholm, Sweden at 59.2 N lat I have seen
only three before, and calculating on old elsets I see that most were passing
in daytime, some in shadow; though I missed a few because of lousy press coverage
of space in this country (before finding RPV and CBBS bulletin boards)
But we may be luckier this year, it seems that most flights will be 57 deg !?
(and one 51 deg. MIR rendez-vous)
|
| 871.46 | Launch Report, MCC Status Report #1 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Feb 04 1994 09:19 | 270 |
| STS-60 Launch "On-time"
The launch of Discovery on mission STS-60 occurred on schedule this
morning at 7:10:00.56 a.m. EST. Launch occcurred at the opening of the window.
The countdown was trouble-free and Discovery's ascent into orbit was nominal.
The six astronauts, including the first Russian Cosmonaut to fly aboard an
American mission, and the Shuttle Discovery are now orbiting above the earth at
a speed of 17,500 miles-per-hour. The orbiter is circling the planet once
every 90 minutes. Discovery's payload bay doors have been opened and the
astronauts are configuring the vehicle for its on-orbit operations.
The first Mission Control Status Report normally appears 6-12 hours after
launch.
STS-60 Mission Data Summary Report February 3, 1994
______________________ ______________________
Bobby J. Funderburk Cynthia A. Snoddy
HOSC Shuttle Manager Chairman, MSFC Space Shuttle
Flight Evaluation Team
STS-60
MISSION DATA SUMMARY
PAYLOAD MANIFEST:
PAYLOAD BAY SPACEHAB-2, Wake Shield Facility (WSF-1), Capillary
Pumped Loop/Orbital Debris Radar Calibration
Sphere/Breman Satelite Experiment/Gas Bridge
Assembly (CAPL/ODERACS/BREMSAT/GBA)
MID-DECK Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment - II (SAREX-II),
Auroral Photography Experiment (APE-B)
INSTRUMENTATION: None Assigned
LAUNCH DATE: February 3, 1994
LAUNCH WINDOW: 6:10 am - 8:40 am CST
LAUNCH TIME: 94:034:12:10.000 GMT
6:10 am CST
LAUNCH SITE: KSC Pad 39A
MOBILE LAUNCH PLATFORM: MLP-3
ORBITAL INCLINATION: 57 degrees
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 190 nautical miles
INSERTION MODE: Direct
MISSION DURATION: 8 + (2) days nominal
PRIMARY LANDING SITE: Kennedy Space Center, FL
ABORT LANDING SITES: TAL (Prime) - Zaragoza, Spain
TAL Alternate - Ben Guerir, Morocco
Moron, Spain
VEHICLE DATA
ORBITER: Discovery OV-103 (18th Flight)
EXTERNAL TANK: ET-61
MAIN ENGINES: 2012, 2034, 2032
POWER LEVEL: Nominal...........104/70/104%
Abort....................104%
To Avoid Ditching........109%
SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS:
SRBs: BI-062
SRM Set Nr.: Left - 360L035A
Right - 360Q035B
SRM Cases: Lightweight/Redesigned
Burnrate (Delivered): LH - 0.370 IPS at 60 deg F
RH - 0.371 IPS at 60 deg F
CREW
COMMANDER: Charles Bolden
SHUTTLE PILOT: Kenneth Reightler
MISSION SPECIALIST: Jan Davis
MISSION SPECIALIST: Ronald Sega
MISSION SPECIALIST: Franklin Chang-Diaz
MISSION SPECIALIST: Sergei Krikalev
1.0 STS-60 FLIGHT SUMMARY
The STS-60 mission, the first joint American and Russian Shuttle mission was
successfully flown from Launch Pad 39A (MLP-3) at the Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) on February 3, 1994. This is a civilian mission of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with the primary objective of
placing the Space Habitation Module (Spacehab) in a 190 nautical mile orbit at
an inclination of 57 degrees. The Spacehab is a commercial space laboratory
for life and material science experiments. Several other payloads will also
fly on the Orbiter in the payload bay and on the middeck.
This was the sixtieth (60th) flight of the Space Shuttle program. RSRM
ignition occurred at approximately 6:10 A.M. Central Standard Time (CST)
(94:034:12:10:00.000 GMT). Winds at liftoff were from approximately 307 degrees
at 10 knots; the ambient temperature was 44 degrees F; the barometric pressure
was 30.4 in. Hg; and the relative humidity was 82%.
2.0 FLIGHT RESULTS
2.1 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - SRBs BI-062, RSRMs 360L035A, 360Q035B
All Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) systems performed as expected. The SRB
prelaunch countdown was normal. The right SRB Gas Generator Bed Temperature
measurement (primary A) gave erratic readings, and the secondary sensor was
used to control the heater for that system. No SRB or RSRM Launch Commit
Criteria (LCC) or Operational Maintenance Requirements Specification Document
(OMRSD) violations occurred.
Power up and operation of all case, igniter, and field joint heaters was
accomplished routinely. All RSRM temperatures were maintained within
acceptable limits throughout the countdown. For this flight, the high pressure
heated ground purge in the SRB aft skirt was used to maintain the case/nozzle
joint and flexible bearing temperatures within the required LCC ranges.
Preliminary data indicates that the flight performance of both RSRMs was well
within the allowable performance envelopes, and was typical of the performance
observed on previous flights. The RSRM propellant mean bulk temperature (PMBT)
was 61 degrees F at liftoff.
Both SRBs were successfully separated from the External Tank (ET) at T + 125.1
seconds, and reports from the recovery area, based on visual sightings,
indicate that the deceleration subsystems performed as designed. Both SRBs
were observed during descent, and are currently floating near the retrieval
ships.
2.2 EXTERNAL TANK - ET-61
All objectives and requirements associated with External Tank (ET) propellant
loading and flight operations were met. All ET electrical equipment and
instrumentation operated satisfactorily. ET purge and heater operations were
monitored and all performed properly. No ET LCC or OMRSD violations were
identified.
Typical ice/frost formations were observed on the ET during the countdown.
There was light frost, but no ice on the acreage areas of the ET. Normal
quantities of ice or frost were present on the LO2 and LH2 feedlines and on the
pressurization line brackets and some frost or ice was present along the LH2
PAL ramps. These observations are acceptable per NSTS 08303. The Ice/Frost
"Red Team" reported that there were no anomalous TPS conditions.
The ET pressurization system functioned properly throughout engine start and
flight. The minimum LO2 ullage pressure experienced during the ullage pressure
slump was 13.3 psid.
ET separation was confirmed, and since Main Engine Cutoff (MECO) occurred
within expected tolerances, ET reentry and breakup is expected to be within the
predicted footprint.
2.3 SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINE - SSMEs 2012, 2034, 2032
All SSME parameters appeared to be normal throughout the prelaunch countdown
and were typical of prelaunch parameters observed on previous flights. Engine
"Ready" was achieved at the proper time; all LCC were met; and engine start and
thrust buildup were normal.
Preliminary flight data indicate that SSME performance during mainstage,
throttling, shutdown and propellant dump operations was normal. HPOTP and
HPFTP temperatures appeared to be well within specification throughout engine
operation. Space Shuttle Main Engine Cutoff (MECO) occurred at T + 512
seconds. There were no Failure IDs (FIDs), and no significant SSME problems
have been identified.
2.4 MAIN PROPULSION SYSTEM - MPS OV-103
The overall performance of the Main Propulsion System (MPS) was as expected.
LO2 and LH2 loading were performed as planned with no stop flows or reverts.
There were no OMRSD or LCC violations.
Throughout the period of preflight operations, no significant hazardous gas
concentrations were detected. The maximum hydrogen concentration level in the
Orbiter aft compartment (which occurred shortly after the start of fastfill)
was approximately 90 ppm, which compares favorably with previous data for this
vehicle.
A comparison of the calculated propellant loads at the end of replenish, versus
the inventory loads, results in a loading accuracy of -0.092 percent for LH2,
and -0.0086 percent for LO2.
Ascent MPS performance appeared to be completely normal. Preliminary data
indicate that the LO2 and LH2 pressurization systems performed as planned, and
that all NPSP requirements were met throughout the flight.
2.5 SHUTTLE RANGE SAFETY SYSTEM - SRSS
Shuttle Range Safety System (SRSS) closed loop testing was completed as
scheduled during the launch countdown. All SRSS Safe and Arm (S&A) devices
were armed and system inhibits turned off at the appropriate times. All SRSS
measurements indicated that the system operated as expected throughout the
countdown and flight.
As planned, the SRB S&A devices were safed, and SRB system power was turned off
prior to SRB separation. The ET system remained active until ET separation
from the Orbiter.
2.6 VEHICLE PERFORMANCE
A quick-look determination of vehicle performance was made using vehicle
acceleration and preflight propulsion prediction data. From these data, the
average flight derived engine Isp determined for the time period between SRB
separation and start of 3-G throttling was 452.34 seconds as compared to an MPS
tag value of 452.63 seconds. The relative velocity of the vehicle reached the
Adaptive Guidance/Throttling (AGT) Reference Value at T + 20.785 seconds,
resulting in a calculated time difference used to adjust the pitch and throttle
profiles of + 0.082 seconds.
3.0 CANDIDATE IN-FLIGHT ANOMALIES AND SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS
No In-Flight Anomalies or significant problems associated with the MSFC
elements have been identified at this time.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
STS-60 Status Report #1
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Thursday, February 3, 1994, 4 p.m. CST
The Space Shuttle Discovery, carrying five Americans and one Russian, rocketed
into orbit right on time at 6:10 a.m. CST this morning.
The launch from the Kennedy Space Center was without problems and put Discovery
in its desired 190-nautical mile circular orbit.
Shortly after reaching orbit, the STS-60 crew began checking Discovery's
systems and activating the commercially developed Spacehab laboratory module
and several of its experiments. The crew also activated one group of the
payload bay Getaway Special experiments.
Spacehab module experiments that were activated included the Organic
Separations payload, which is designed to investigate cell separation
techniques for possible pharmaceutical and biotechnology processing, and the
Equipment for Controlled Liquid Phase Sintering Experiment package, a furnace
designed to explore the possibilities of creating stronger, lighter and more
durable metals for use in bearings, cutting tools and electronics.
Spacehab middeck experiments that were activated included Immune-1, which will
look at the immune systems of rats in orbit, and the Commercial Protein Crystal
Growth package, which is attempting to grow large, well-ordered protein
crystals so that their structures can be more easily studied.
Commander Charlie Bolden, Pilot Ken Reightler and Payload Specialists, Franklin
Chang-Diaz, Jan Davis, Sergei Krikalev and Ron Sega were running about two
hours behind on a very busy timeline and flight controllers were looking for
ways to trim the timeline and put the crew to bed on time at 5:10 p.m. CST.
The crew's long workday began about 2:30 a.m.
Operations with the Stirling Orbiter Refrigerator/Freezer will be postponed,
and Reightler was removed from the list of test subjects for the joint
U.S./Russian medical experiments for the day. Several steps were taken out of
the timeline for other subjects in that set of experiments.
The first on-orbit television downlinked by the crew at 2:18 p.m. CST showed
Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian to fly aboard an American spacecraft, in the
Spacehab module.
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| 871.47 | NASA Select Schedule available | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Feb 04 1994 09:42 | 10 |
| pragma::public:[nasa]sts-60.nasa_select
**************** All of the STS-60 documents are available on the Web
**************** at http://www-space.lkg.dec.com/space-archives.html
**************** The Web information can run a few hours ahead of Notes
**************** because it is a LOT easier to maintain it there.
- dave
|
| 871.48 | Russians kept in the dark about cosmonaut flight | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Fri Feb 04 1994 13:05 | 115 |
| Article: 6725
From: [email protected] (SARAH BROWN)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.hot.ussr
Subject: Russians get live broadcast of space shuttle blastoff
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 8:41:33 PST
MOSCOW (UPI) -- Russians on the streets of Moscow gave a
thumbs-up Thursday to the first ride by a Russian cosmonaut on an
American spaceflight, although many were unaware the unprecedented
mission was even taking place.
Russian newspapers virtually ignored the blastoff of the U.S.
space shuttle carrying a Russian cosmonaut, but the liftoff was
broadcast live throughout the former Soviet republics.
For Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, a veteran of marathon
space flights, the eight-day mission represents a relatively quick
orbit around Earth, but he said he felt like a student aboard the
space shuttle Discovery.
``I heard about the take-off on television and I think it's
great that Russians are sharing their scientific knowledge with
Americans,'' said 12-year-old Volodya Prosvoryakov.
``We need to establish contacts with America and have our
governments work together,'' said a bundled-up Anna Baskakova, 22, on
the cold streets of Moscow. ``Space is a frontier for better relations
all around and I hope that the overall outcome of this will be friendship.''
``I want to know what's up there too!'' exclaimed 60-year-old
Raisa Voronkova.
``It's important that science is being shared and most
importantly that it is no longer a secret,'' Sergei Sergeyko, 20.
Russian TV, in its broadcast of the blastoff, said Russia
experiences fewer crew problems, fewer delays, and its cosmonauts have
smoother rides.
Krikalev himself, in a pre-launch interview, told the home
audience, ``It seems strange to me that people tend to believe, maybe
due to lack of knowledge, maybe due to the impression that everything
is bad in our country, that we are far behind and that here (in the
United States) everything is flourishing.''
Krikalev has spent a total of 15 months circling Earth in
Russian spacecraft.
This mission is the first step by Russia and the United States
to work together in space and eventually have Russians and Americans
work side by side in orbiting space stations.
Russia's Mir space station has been manned continuously since
1986. After the shuttle Discovery was launched with Krikalev aboard,
space officials named the U.S. astronauts who will join a Russian
mission to Mir next year.
Although Russians learned little of the Discovery mission with
Krikalev beforehand -- Russian newspapers made almost no mention of it
on the day of the launch -- C.I.S. television interrupted its Thursday
afternoon newscast to broadcast live coverage of the launch.
``The most important thing is that ventures like these show
the simple people in Russia that positive influences can also come
from America, not just expensive products and Hollywood movies,''
Mehak Movsiyan, 30, said on the street.
Galiya Yermakov, 60, said, ``I think it's excellent that we
are doing things together. We should cooperate in all areas. Thank God
that we are now able to share. I wish them all a successful and safe trip!''
Article: 6724
From: [email protected] (IRENE BROWN, UPI Science Writer)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.hot.ussr
Subject: First joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission under way
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 8:00:17 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - Shuttle Discovery and six
astronauts, including a veteran Russian cosmonaut, blasted off
Thursday morning for an eight-day research flight, opening a new
chapter in U.S.-Russian space relations.
Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 15 months in space aboard the
Mir station, headed into orbit for his third mission, this time on the
space shuttle Discovery. The mission is the first leg of an ambitious and
still-evolving plan to unite the U.S. and Russian manned space programs.
``This is a very important step,'' said Russian Space Agency
director Yuri Koptev, speaking through a translator.
``We have a window of opportunity here,'' added NASA
Administrator Daniel Goldin. ``We have to learn how to live in the
world where we don't live in fear of everything. The easy thing to do
is to say 'We're afraid. We don't want to reach out. We don't want to
work with the Russians,''' he said, referring to the political and
economic instability of the former Soviet Union.
``It would be a terrible tragedy if our generation shut down
what President Kennedy started 35 years ago because of our insecurities,''
Goldin said.
Koptev and Goldin, both of whom are veterans of the Cold War
era defense industry, watched Thursday's 7:10 a.m. launch together at
a riverside viewing site a few miles from the launch pad.
``There was a lot of symbolism,'' said Goldin. ``About a
minute after sunrise, on time and safely, the shuttle took off,
launching a new age for the world.''
During the flight, astronauts planned to test an experimental
space manufacturing facility and oversee experiments in the Spacehab
laboratory module in the shuttle's cargo bay.
Landing is scheduled for Feb. 11 at the Kennedy Space Center.
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| 871.49 | Krikalev bio | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Fri Feb 04 1994 13:13 | 54 |
| Article: 17476
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: [email protected] (Gerald G. Marfoe)
Subject: Re: Cosmonaut aboard Shuttle. . .(bio?)
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet Administrator)
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 21:01:58 GMT
Here's Sergei Krikalev's biography from the STS-60 Press Kit. Note
that his last name is pronounced "Krikalovf", not the way it's
spelled. I've also read that he was a champion aerobatic pilot in the
former Soviet Union.
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Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, 35, a Russian Space Agency
cosmonaut, is mission specialist 4 (MS4) on STS-60. A native of St.
Petersburg, Russia, Krikalev is one of two candidates named by the
Russian Space Agency to fly on the Space Shuttle. Krikalev is a
veteran of two flights in space, both long-duration stays aboard the
Russian Mir Space Station.
Krikalev graduated from high school in 1975 and received a
mechanical engineering degree from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute,
now renamed the St. Petersburg Technical University, in 1981.
Krikalev joined NPO Energia, the Russian industrial organization
responsible for manned space flight activities in 1981, and his duties
included testing space flight equipment, developing space operations
methods, and ground control operations. He worked with the rescue team
for the Salyut 7 space station failure in 1985, developing methods for
docking with the uncontrolled station and for repair of the station.
Krikalev was selected as a cosmonaut in 1985 and first flew
aboard Soyuz TM-7 as a flight engineer. The Soyuz TM-7 mission was
launched Nov. 26, 1988, and the crew stayed aboard the Mir space
station until their return on April 27, 1989.
His next flight was as flight engineer aboard Soyuz TM-12, the
ninth Mir mission, launched on May 19, 1991. Krikalev remained aboard
the Mir station, performing seven spacewalks during his stay, until
his return on March 25, 1992.
Krikalev has logged a total of more than 1 year and three months
in space.
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| 871.50 | MCC Status Reports #2-5 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Sun Feb 06 1994 14:52 | 180 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #2
Friday, February 4, 1994, 6 a.m. CST
The six astronauts aboard Discovery were awakened at 1:10 a.m. CST this
morning to the tune "Early Morning Riser" by Pure Prairie League to begin
their second day in space. With few revisions required to their flight
plan, the astronauts began a series of joint U.S.-Russian metabolic
investigations involving blood draws and continued the operation of a
number of experiments housed in the commercial SPACEHAB module in the
shuttle's cargo bay. Commander Charlie Bolden and payload commander
Franklin Chang-Diaz were each subject and operator for the early blood
work.
A short time after waking up, the astronauts flew directly over St.
Petersburg, Russia, the home of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who is
flying as a mission specialist aboard Discovery as the first Russian
space traveler to fly on a U.S. spacecraft. Krikalev later trained
cameras on Moscow and other cities in his homeland as part of the visual
observations being made on this flight using both U.S. equipment and
Russian equipment which has flown on the Mir Space Station.
Mission Specialist Ron Sega set up a bicycle exercise machine in
Discovery's middeck while pilot Ken Reightler checked out laser gear
which will be used tomorrow to track the Wake Shield Facility satellite
after it is deployed from Discovery to begin two days of free-flight
experiments. The Wake Shield will test new ways to process thin film
wafers in orbit for use in semiconductors and computers.
To prepare for the deployment of the Wake Shield, Sega joined Jan Davis
and Krikalev in unlimbering and testing Discovery's 50-foot long robot
arm. Davis will grapple the Wake Shield with the arm tomorrow to lift it
out of a special cradle in the shuttle's cargo bay prior to its release.
The three crewmembers also used the arm's TV cameras today to survey
equipment housed in the cargo bay.
Discovery is currently orbiting the Earth at an altitude of just over 200
statute miles every 91 minutes with all of its systems in good shape.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #3
Friday, February 4, 1994, 6 p.m. CST
On its first full day of on-orbit operations, the international crew
aboard Discovery checked out the shuttle's robot arm in preparation for
Saturday's deployment of the Wake Shield Facility and continued work on
biomedical and materials processing experiments.
Mission Specialists Jan Davis, Sergei Krikalev and Ron Sega put the arm
through its paces and Pilot Ken Reightler checked out laser gear that
will be used to track the Wake Shield Facility after it is released by
the robot arm to begin two days of free-flight experimentation on new
ways to process thin film semiconductors in an ultravacuum. Although the
computer did not bring up the expected test data for the laser ranging
gear, flight controllers expect the system to work when it is processing
actual data.
Davis is scheduled to grapple Wake Shield with the robot arm about 5:15
a.m. CST, lift it out of a special cradle in the shuttle's cargo bay and
release it about 10:30 a.m. The satellite will maneuver to take up a
position about 40 nautical miles behind the shuttle.
Flight controllers extended the crew's work day by half an hour to 5:40
p.m. CST so that the astronauts could add some steps to their work with
the Commercial Protein Crystal Growth in an effort to slow the growth
rate and grow a more uniform crystal. The crew is scheduled to awaken at
1:40 a.m. CST Saturday.
Also today, the crew continued work on a series of joint U.S.-Russian
metabolic investigations involving blood draws and operated a number of
experiments in the commercial SPACEHAB module in the shuttle's cargo bay.
Commander Charlie Bolden and Mission Specialist Franklin Chang-Diaz
fielded questions from Black Entertainment Television during a live
interview.
Discovery is currently orbiting the Earth at an altitude of just over 200
statute miles every 91 minutes with all of its systems functioning well.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #4
6 a.m. CST -- Saturday, February 5, 1994
Discovery's six astronauts were allowed to sleep an extra half-hour this
morning, and were awakened at 1:40 a.m. CST by flight controllers to the
tune of "Rawhide," sung by the STS-60 simulation and training team. The
crewmembers were allowed to sleep in after going to bed a little later
than planned Friday night to catch up on additional work with experiments
in the SPACEHAB commercial science module in the shuttle's payload bay.
After reviewing their morning mail, the astronauts began preparations for
the deployment of the 3700-pound Wake Shield Facility. The disc-shaped
experimental satellite is designed to plow through space, creating an
ultra-pure vacuum behind it to allow formation of thin film wafers of
gallium arsenide. These ultimately may be used in the production of
improved semiconductors and computers.
Assisted by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Mission Specialist Jan
Davis powered up the shuttle's robot arm at about 5 a.m. and grappled the
Wake Shield Facility about fifteen minutes later as crewmate Ron Sega
conducted a successful checkout of the satellite's communications systems
from a control panel at Discovery's aft flight deck. Prior to unberthing
the Wake Shield from its platform in the cargo bay, Sega reported seeing
water droplets in the vicinity of the orbiter.
Following discussions with prime investigator Dr. Alex Ignatiev, and
flight controllers in Mission Control, Sega and the remaining Discovery
crew members were told that the droplets were likely caused by a small
"burp" of water from a tank dump nozzle.
Confident that the satellite is free of any water or ice contamination
and with the consent of Wake Shield officials, Mission Control gave
permission for Davis to begin unberthing the satellite for its deployment
later this morning at about 10. Three opportunities are available for
the deployment of the satellite throughout the day.
With all of its systems in good shape, Discovery is orbiting the Earth
every 91 minutes at an altitude of about 210 statute miles.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #5
Saturday, Feb. 5, 1994, 5 p.m. CST
The astronauts aboard Discovery will attempt to deploy the Wake Shield
Facility again Sunday and perform a full two-days of semiconductor wafer
growth.
Flight controllers informed the crew of the one-day postponement shortly
after noon. The astronauts placed Wake Shield back in the payload bay,
and it was securely relatched in its carrier at 3:28 p.m. CST. The disc-
shaped satellite is designed to plow through space, creating an ultra-
pure vacuum behind it to allow formation of thin film materials. On this
flight, Wake Shield will attempt to build wafers of gallium arsenide that
could be used as semiconductors for advanced electronics.
The delay was the result of several factors, including radio interference
and an inability to read the Wake Shield's status lights when the
orbiter's payload bay is in full sunlight. Deployment originally was
scheduled for 10 a.m. CST, but after grappling the free-flyer and lifting
it out of the cargo bay and into the pre-deploy position, crew members
and investigators on the ground were unable to tell whether power and
transmitter status lights were giving the proper indications. After
determining that the problem was not a systems failure, but difficulty in
reading the status lights, the crew and flight controllers perpared for
another release attempt. Interference between the radio transmitter on
the Wake Shield Facility and the receiver on its payload bay carrier
resulted in the one-day wave-off.
Because of the delay, Sunday's schedule will look much the same as
Saturdays, with the 3,700-pound Wake Shield to be deployed about 10 a.m.
CST. There is a possiblity of deploying the Wake Shield one orbit, or
about 90 minutes, early. When the Wake Shield is moved to its pre-deploy
position with the arm Sunday, flight controllers will work with the crew
to adjust the arm's position for better radio communication.
Scientific investigations that were planned for Sunday will be moved to
Monday, and the Wake Shield will be retrieved on Tuesday. Schedulers were
still discussing whether there will be time to complete the full set of
plume impingement tests that are planned prior to retrieval. Instead of
berthing the Wake Shield immediately after grapple on Orbit 83, the crew
will leave the satellite on the robot arm and perform as many in-cabin
science activities as time allows. Wake Shield will be berthed on
Wednesday, and then the crew will again perform as much scientific
research as possible.
The adjusted schedule is not expected to preclude the deployment of the
Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Spheres or the University of Bremen
Satellite on Thursday.
With all of its systems in good shape, Discovery is orbiting the Earth
every 91 minutes at an altitude of about 210 statute miles.
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| 871.51 | More on Krikalyov | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Mon Feb 07 1994 18:40 | 127 |
| Article: 17494
From: [email protected] (Rainer Kalliany)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Cosmonaut aboard Shuttle. . .(bio?)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 10:59:58
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
SERGEJ KRIKALJOV (Mission Specialist on current STS-60)
As the official biography already has been posted here, I'll only give some
additional informations I have.
Sergej Krikaljov by no means is the most prominent figure among the younger
generation of russian(soviet) cosmonauts.
Following recent postings of [email protected] (Pawel Moskalik)
to sci.space.shuttle, with 463 days at 2 space flights he is on second
rank after his comrade Musa Manarov (541 days/2 flights). On EVAs he holds
the record himself: Total spacewalk-time 36 hours:10, accumulated at 7 EVAs.
(The best non-russian is T.Akers/USA on total rank 6 with 29:40 at 4 EVAs).
According to the Austrian cosmonaut Franz Viehboeck (who did perform a 10-day
mission to MIR with Sojouz TM-13 in Oct. 1991), he is an outstanding technical
talent and knows every detail on all the systems of Sojouz and the MIR-complex.
In 1991 his stay on MIR had to be expanded from planned 6 months to finally 11:
Out of long-term schedule, a Kazhak cosmonaut became member of the TM-13 crew,
and - like the Austrian - he also had to return to earth after a short visit;
thus only one member of the residing 2-men-crew on MIR could be exchanged.
Krikalov did not seem to bother much about expanding his stay ...
1994-04-04, 10:00 UT
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Institut fuer Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung, TU (Technische Univ.) Wien
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna Univ. of Technology
Europa/Europe, Oesterreich/Austria; A-1040 Wien/Vienna, Gusshausstr. 27-19
Phone: +43 1 58801 3819 (or 3812) Fax: +43 1 5056268
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in a very narrow field of endeavour .........
Article: 17499
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: [email protected] (George Hastings)
Subject: Re: Cosmonaut aboard Shuttle. . .(bio?)
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 17:51:18 GMT
Jeff Ehlinger ([email protected] ) writes:
> Would it be possible for someone to post a biography of the
> Soviet astronaut in this sub? Just curious.
In addition to the information available in the STS-60 Press Kit:
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov
Born on August 27, 1958 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In 1975 he
finished school, and in the same year enrolled at the Lenngrad
Mechanical Institute. He went in for aerobatics in the Institute
Aeoclub, and was later awarded the title of Master of Sports of the
USSR for airplane sport. He graduated from the Institute in 1981 and
began to work in the Korolyov's Design Bureau. He never was amember of
the CPSU. In November of 1985 he was selected for the Soviet Cosmonaut
Team. Until 1988 he was in the Soviet shuttle Buran program (OKP).
From March 1988 until November 1988 Krikalyov trained for the second
Soviet-French MIR flight with Volkov and Chretien.
November 26, 1988 to April 27, 1989 he had his first
spaceflight to the MIR space station. Flight duration was 151 days, 11
hours, 8 minutes, 23 seconds. After this mission, he was with the
Buran Group again. In 1990 he was transferred to the MIR Group. From
June 1990 to December 1991 Krikalyov and Artsebarsky trained as backup
crew for the MIR resident mission. From January 1991 until May 1991
these two continued their MIR training, but now designated and the
prime crew. May 5, 1991 through March 25, 1992 Krikalyov had his
second spaceflight, flight duration just over 310 days aboard MIR,
during which he had 6 EVAs with a duration of 31 hours, 58 minutes.
(from Sergei A Voevodin)
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| George Hastings | [email protected] |
| Space Science Teacher | Mathematics & Science Center |
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Article: 17510
From: [email protected] (Pawel Moskalik)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Cosmonaut aboard Shuttle. . .(bio?)
Date: 5 Feb 1994 02:40:39 GMT
Organization: McDonald Observatory, University of Texas @ Austin
In article <[email protected]>,
George Hastings <[email protected]> wrote:
>May 5, 1991 through March 25, 1992 Krikalyov had his second
>spaceflight, flight duration just over 310 days aboard MIR,
>during which he had 6 EVAs with a duration of 31 hours, 58
>minutes.
> (from Sergei A Voevodin)
> ______________________________________________________
Actually, he made 7 EVAs: 6 with Artsebarsky and one more with this second
comander Volkov. Total time: 36hours 10minutes
Pawel Moskalik
Article: 17528
From: [email protected] (Pawel Moskalik)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Cosmonaut aboard Shuttle. . .(bio?)
Date: 6 Feb 1994 21:52:57 GMT
Organization: McDonald Observatory, University of Texas @ Austin
In article <[email protected]>, Thomas Leavitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>Could this cosmonaut hold the record for longest time, total, spent in space?
>
>Thomas
>[email protected]
He is currently holding the second place for the cumulative time in space.
As for today he has accumulated 466days in space.
The record holder Musa Manarov has 541days.
Pawel Moskalik
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| 871.52 | | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Feb 08 1994 09:29 | 179 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #6
6 a.m. CST, Sunday, February 6, 1994
Discovery's astronauts were awakened for their fourth day in space at
1:40 a.m. CST to the tune, "The Bug," by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
After wakeup, the crew prepared for another attempt to deploy the 3,700-
pound Wake Shield Facility after postponing yesterday's effort due to
radio frequency interference between the satellite and the shuttle. The
interference prevented smooth, consistent commanding to reach the
satellite from computers on Discovery and in the Mission Control Center.
Flight controllers revised techniques which are being used by robot arm
operator Jan Davis to keep the Wake Shield Facility out of the way of
Discovery's KU-band communications system as the satellite is maneuvered
over the side of the shuttle.
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev performed a minor maintenance procedure
to expel residual water from Discovery's supply dump lines and prevent
any water from escaping as it did yesterday during the unberthing of the
Wake Shield Facility from the cargo bay.
Davis and Krikalev powered up the 50-foot long robot arm shortly after 5
a.m. and grappled the Wake Shield Facility in preparation for health
checks on the various satellite systems.
Three opportunities are available for the deployment of the Wake Shield
Facility, at 10:19, 11:51 and 1:23. The satellite is expected to fly
free of the shuttle for about 48 hours, processing thin film wafers of
gallium arsenide for possible use in improving the performance of
semiconductors and computers.
Discovery was clearly visible in the pre-dawn skies over Houston about an
hour before dawn as it streaked overhead at an altitude of about 210
statute miles. All of the orbiter's systems are in good shape as the
shuttle orbits the Earth every 91 minutes.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #7
6 p.m. CST, Sunday, February 6, 1994
Scientists will attempt to grow three to four galium arsenide wafers
while Discovery's astronauts sleep tonight and the Wake Shield Facility
remains at the end of the shuttle's robot arm. Scientists have received
their first data on the vacuum environment on the wake side of the
satellite.
The possibility of deploying the Wake Shield on Monday remains, if
difficulties with its attitude control system can be resolved. The
remaining three or four thin films would be grown during 24 hours of free
flight if the satellite can be deployed, or during another night of on-
arm operations if not.
Flight controllers informed the crew at 1:50 p.m. CST Sunday that they
would not be able to deploy the Wake Shield.
The attitude control system has a sensor on the ram side of the Wake
Shield. It senses the rim of the Earth, by way of a small, rotating
mirror. Discovery's astronauts trained a camera on the mirror, which
appears to be working well mechanically. Trouble-shooters are looking for
a possible hardware or software malfunction in the sensor control system.
Sunday's problems were not related to Saturday's problems with the Wake
Shield's communications equipment. Those communications problems have
been resolved and satellite commanding is consistent.
Mission Specialist Sergei Krikalev performed an in-flight maintenance
procedure to eliminate intermittent leaks of a shuttle supply water dump
nozzle, which produced some early contamination of the Wake Shield, and
later attached the supply water lines to a contingency collection bag to
eliminate the need for additional supply water dumps for about 10 hours.
He also was able to contact ham radio operators in Moscow using the
Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment equipment.
The rest of the orbiter's systems are in good shape as the shuttle orbits
about 210 statute miles above the Earth, making one revolution every 91
minutes.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #8
6 a.m. CST, Monday, February 7, 1994
Discovery's astronauts were awakened at 1:40 a.m this morning for their
fifth day in space to the tune "Let There Be Peace On Earth," sung by the
fourth graders of the Armand Bayou Elementary School in Clear Lake. One
of the singers was Emily Reightler, the daughter of shuttle pilot Ken
Reightler, who is celebrating her 10th birthday today.
While the astronauts slept, the process of growing thin film wafers of
gallium arsenide began on the Wake Shield Facility satellite, as it hung
from the end of Discovery's fifty-foot long robot arm. Payload
controllers resorted to a backup plan for growing the wafers while
keeping the satellite attached to the arm when a second attempt to deploy
the Wake Shield was scrubbed Sunday because of horizon sensor problems in
the satellite's attitude and directional control system.
By 4 a.m. CST, one wafer of gallium arsenide had been grown and the
growth of a second wafer doped with silicon had begun. Three wafers are
expected to be grown by late morning. A fourth wafer was expected to be
grown by mid-morning, but the apparent failure of an electron beam system
on the satellite to monitor the growth of the wafers will likely prevent
the growth of the fourth wafer before the Wake Shield is scheduled to be
reberthed on a platform in the cargo bay at about 10:30 a.m. Current
plans call for the Wake Shield to be unberthed at mid-afternoon and
placed in position once again to allow three remaining film wafers to be
grown overnight into Tuesday morning.
Flight controllers have developed a backup plan for the deployment of the
Wake Shield to complete its thin film wafer growth work in the event the
attitude control system can be fixed.
The astronauts are conducting a variety of biomedical experiments today
and are continuing work with a dozen experiments in the SPACEHAB
commercial science module in the shuttle's cargo bay.
Commander Charlie Bolden will perform a maintenance procedure to try to
fix a collapsed rubber duct on the connecting tunnel which links the
SPACEHAB to the orbiter's middeck. It is believed that a clogged filter
may have caused the duct to sag. The duct poses no problem and there is
normal air flow to the science workshop.
Overnight, the astronauts were awakened briefly by an alarm which they
had been warned about before going to bed last night resulting from a
cold jet thruster. The alarm was turned off and the astronauts went back
to sleep.
Discovery is in excellent shape as it orbits the Earth every 91 minutes
at an altitude of about 210 statute miles.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #9
6 p.m. CST, Monday, February 7, 1994
As the Wake Shield Facility continued its work on Discovery's robot arm,
the STS-60 astronauts talked to President Bill Clinton through a
satellite link with Mission Control.
Clinton visited Mission Control as part of a tour of the Johnson Space
Center and discussed the progress of the mission and its importance to
international cooperation, with Russian Sergei Krikalev on board.
Mission managers and Wake Shield scientists on the ground decided after
lengthy discussions not to release the satellite for free flight Monday
because of difficulties with its attitude control system. Three thin film
wafers of gallium arsenide were grown overnight while the Wake Shield
hung from the end of Discovery's 50-foot-long robot arm.
A fourth wafer was being grown as the astronauts began their sleep shift
Monday. This time, the Wake Shield was lifted above the port side of
Discovery's payload bay. The change in position was designed to put the
Wake Shield as far away from the orbiter as possible to minimize
contamination of the vacuum in which the films are being grown.
The crew will place Wake Shield back in the payload bay Tuesday to allow
another shuttle water dump, then extend the arm again for Charging
Hazards and Wake Studies measurements. The cooperative experiment with
the U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory is designed to characterize the
way space systems interact with the space environment. After the CHAWS
tests are concluded, the Wake Shield will remain on the arm for another
night of thin film growth.
The astronauts also conducted a variety of biomedical experiments today
and continued work with a dozen experiments in the SPACEHAB commercial
science module.
Commander Charlie Bolden performed an in-flight repair of a collapsed air
duct on the connecting tunnel which links the SPACEHAB to the orbiter's
middeck to ensure normal air flow to the science workshop.
Discovery continues to provide a stable environment for research as it
orbits the Earth every 91 minutes at an altitude of about 210 statute
miles.
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| 871.54 | STS-60 news | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Tue Feb 08 1994 15:43 | 124 |
| Article: 2159
From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.hot.clinton,clari.tw.space,clari.news.gov.agency
Subject: Clinton speaks with shuttle astronauts
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 14:54:46 PST
SPACE CENTER HOUSTON (UPI) -- President Clinton spoke with the
shuttle Discovery astronauts Monday, telling the Americans and Russian
on board their mission was ``truly historic'' and the first step
toward global cooperation in space.
Clinton spoke with the astronauts, including Russian cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev, at the end of a tour of Johnson Space Flight Center
where he also defended the administration's proposed cuts in funding
for the space station.
``Keep in mind that this budget represents the new redesign of the
space station to maintain the space station but at a lower budget level,''
Clinton told employees. ``We think we can do the space station on the
own space station program.
He spoke even as the fiscal 1995 budget was submitted to Capitol
Hill, which included an overall cut in NASA funds for the first time,
ending the trip with the brief conversation with the astronauts who
could only hear him intermittently.
Joking that ``the American people would be happy too if they
only had to listen to every third word,'' Clinton said, ``We're all
watching you with great pride.
``I just want to congratulate you for being up there. I think
this is the first step in what will become the norm of global
cooperation in space,'' Clinton said. ``If we get this space station
finished with the contributions of Russia, Canada, Japan, Europe and
the United States, it's going to be a force for peace and progress that
will be truly historic and you will have paid a major role in that.''
Russia and the United States plan a series of astronaut
exchanges and joint missions through the decade, leading toward
partnership in the still-unnamed international space station.
Discovery blasted off Feb. 3 for an eight-day mission. Landing
is scheduled for Friday at the Kennedy Space Center.
Article: 2162
From: [email protected] (IRENE BROWN, UPI Science Writer)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.gov.agency,clari.tw.aerospace
Subject: Astronauts, cosmonauts link up for television interview
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 9:31:35 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - The Russian and U.S. manned space
programs took another step toward unity Tuesday with the first-ever
joint interview with astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the shuttle
Discovery and the Russian space station Mir.
``We also believe that space cooperation (benefits) the entire
humanity. We're only sorry we didn't start this earlier,'' Mir commander
Viktor Afanasyev said through a translator during a television interview
on ABC's Good Morning America.
Separated by half a globe, but united by satellite communication
links, the Mir cosmonauts greeted colleague Sergei Krikalev, flying as a
guest astronaut aboard the shuttle Discovery.
Concurrent with a series of astronaut exchanges, the United States
plans to dock space shuttles to Mir, then build an international space
station in partnership with the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and Canadians.
``We are setting an example for people so that they can understand
this can be accomplished without very much difficulty. Hopefully, it
will promote better human understanding,'' said Discovery commander
Charles Bolden.
While the Discovery crew has scored solid hits for international
relations, its scientific achievements have fallen short of mission objectives.
Equipment problems forced the crew to test an innovative space
manufacturing process in the relatively contaminated environment of the
shuttle, rather than in a matter-free zone carved out in space 45 miles away.
On Tuesday, shuttle robot arm operator Jan Davis maneuvered the 12-
foot disc to support an Air Force experiment to measure the flow of
electrically charged particles around the spacecraft and near the
shuttle. The information is expected to help spacecraft designers plan
future satellites.
The crew also continued work on materials and life science
experiments in the Spacehab module in Discovery's cargo bay and
participated in joint U.S.-Russian medical tests.
The eight-day flight is scheduled to end at 12:42 p.m. EST
Friday at the Kennedy Space Center.
Article: 2163
From: [email protected] (IRENE BROWN, UPI Science Writer)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.space,clari.news.gov.agency,clari.tw.aerospace
Subject: Crystals of semiconductor material grown during shuttle mission
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 9:39:07 PST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- While the international crew
of shuttle Discovery scored solid hits for international relations,
its scientific achievements have fallen short of mission objectives.
Equipment problems forced the crew to test an innovative space
manufacturing process in the relatively contaminated environment of
the shuttle, rather than in a matter-free zone carved out in space
45 miles away.
But five crystals of gallium arsenide, an exotic semiconductor
material that might one day revolutionize computers, were grown in
the saucer-shaped Wake Shield Facility, which remained locked onto
the shuttle's robot arm, grounded by a faulty guidance sensor.
The Wake Shield was to be deployed by the shuttle crew Saturday
for a two-day proof-ofconcept free flight. Project managers, however,
still expected good scientific from the mission.
``We've been able to prove the concept that we can measure
the vacuum environment in the wake of the (shield) and that we can
grow thin semicondutor films in that vacuum environment,'' said Alex
Ignatiev, Wake Shield project director.
Three additional flights of the Wake Shield are planned through 1997.
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| 871.55 | GIF files available | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Tue Feb 08 1994 16:22 | 72 |
| Article: 17564
From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: New GIF's at explorer.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.32.18)
Date: 8 Feb 94 04:39:00 EST
Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center
Greetings and Salutations:
The following should be available soon for anonymous FTP from :
explorer.arc.nasa.gov
128.102.32.18
under :
/pub/SPACE/GIF
STS60LN2.GIF
STS-60, OV-103 Discovery rides a column of smoke and fire on her way
to orbit on February 3, 1994. View from the NASA press site.
Photography by Sarah R. Yoffa, [email protected]
STS60LNC.GIF
STS-60, OV-103 Discovery ignites her engines and prepares for liftoff
at T minus one second from Pad 39A on February 3, 1994. View from the
NASA press site.
Photography by Sarah R. Yoffa, [email protected]
STS60ROL.GIF
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - - The Space Shuttle Discovery makes the
final Earth-bound leg of a journey into space, leaving the Vehicle
Assembly Building for Launch Pad 39A on a crisp, clear winter day.
Once at the pad, two of the payloads for Discovery's upcoming flight,
Mission STS-60, will be installed. The Wake Shield Facility-1 and Get
Away Special bridge assembly will be joining SPACEHAB-2 in the
orbiter's payload bay. Liftoff of the first Space Shuttle flight of
1994 is currently targeted for around February 3, 1994.
PHOTO NO.: KSC-94PC-109
PHOTO CREDIT : NASA, or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
AC 407 867-7819
For Release : January 10, 1994
No copyright protection is asserted for this photography
If a recognizable person appears in this photograph, use for commercial
purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity
It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any
NASA employees of a commercial product, process or service, or used in
any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly it is requested that
if this photograph is used in advertising, and other commercial
promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ken Hollis
INTERNET: [email protected] SPAN/HEPnet: KSCP00::HOLLIS
Dizzyclaimer: If you believe this is in any way, shape, or form actual
official information or opinion,then you are probably as confused if not
more so than I am...I think...
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| 871.56 | Orbital elements and distribution list info | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Feb 10 1994 08:35 | 28 |
| From: US1RMC::"[email protected]" "MAIL-11 Daemon" 10-FEB-1994
To: [email protected]
CC:
Subj: STS-60 Element Set (94041.688)
STS-60
1 22977U 94006A 94041.68880588 .00001098 -91503-7 80760-5 0 143
2 22977 56.9892 183.8290 0006683 303.1211 56.9216 15.71605210 1146
Satellite: STS-60
Catalog number: 22977
Epoch time: 94041.68880588 = (10 FEB 94 16:31:52.82 UTC)
Element set: 014
Inclination: 56.9892 deg
RA of node: 183.8290 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-60
Eccentricity: .0006683 Keplerian Element set JSC-014
Arg of perigee: 303.1211 deg from NASA flight Day 8 vector
Mean anomaly: 56.9216 deg
Mean motion: 15.71605210 rev/day G. L. Carman
Decay rate: 1.098e-05 rev/day^2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 114
(for Shuttle Elements subscription info, email: [email protected])
--
Gary Morris KK6YB Internet: [email protected]
San Diego, CA, USA Phone: +1 619-457-2700
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| 871.57 | MCC Status Reports #10-12 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Feb 10 1994 09:26 | 142 |
|
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #10
6 a.m. CST, Tuesday, February 8, 1994
Discovery's astronauts were awakened at 2:10 a.m. CST for their sixth day
in space by "Sweet Home, Alabama" by Lynard Skynard, in honor of
astronaut Jan Davis, who considers Huntsville her hometown.
While the astronauts slept, the 12-foot wide Wake Shield Facility
performed materials science work while affixed to the end of Discovery's
robot arm. Five thin film wafers have been grown on a carousel on the
experiment side of the satellite with more film growth expected before
the Wake Shield work is completed. The film wafers are being produced to
demonstrate new ways to grow semiconductor material in a purer
environment than artificial vacuums provided on Earth.
Later today, the astronauts will use the shuttle's robot arm to place the
Wake Shield in various positions to collect electrical data for an Air
Force experiment on the satellite called CHAWS, for Charging Hazards and
Wake Studies. A device resembling a lightning rod on the Wake Shield
will measure the amount of electricity around the satellite and the
shuttle. The data should help engineers in designing new spacecraft
which are more tolerant of electrical activity in space.
Later today, the Wake Shield Facility's small nitrogen gas thruster will
be fired for 2 seconds, 4 seconds and 6 seconds at 3-minute intervals to
allow its mass spectrometer to analyze how the thruster affects the
environment around the satellite and the shuttle.
The thruster would have been used to propel the Wake Shield away from
Discovery had it been deployed for free-flight science operations. The
deployment was canceled because of uncertainty over the health of the
Wake Shield's attitude control system.
The astronauts also plan a full day of experiments in support of the
joint U.S.-Russian medical investigations being performed on board and
will tend to the host of experiments which are operating in the Spacehab
commercial science module.
Discovery is orbiting the Earth every 91 minutes at an altitude of about
210 statute miles with all of its systems in excellent shape.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #11
5 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 8, 1994
Discovery's crew spent a quiet sixth day in orbit concentrating on
wrapping up science operations performed with the saucer-shaped Wake
Shield Facility grasped at the end of the shuttle's mechanical arm.
During the day, the crew moved the arm to various positions for an Air
Force experiment aboard the satellite called Charging Hazards and Wake
Studies, or CHAWS. CHAWS measures the amount of electricity around the
Wake Shield Facility and Discovery. Its studies may help engineers design
future spacecraft better suited to the electrical activity found in Earth
orbit.
Another Wake Shield experiment designed by the U.S. Army and called the
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, or CERL, was activated
today as well. CERL studies thin metal films deposited in weightlessness
and is expected to provide information about how reflective coatings
could be applied to structures while in orbit.
The Wake Shield Facility will remain at the end of Discovery's mechanical
arm while the crew sleeps to gather further information for its
experiments and possibly attempt the growth of another thin film sample.
With its research complete, it will be stowed back in the cargo bay early
tomorrow morning for the trip home.
In addition to work with the Wake Shield Facility today, the crew
conducted all of the scheduled medical studies planned today as part of
the joint U.S.-Russian investigations on the mission. Also, experiments
in the Spacehab module were ongoing throughout the day.
Wednesday's activities will be highlighted by the planned deploy of two
experiments from Discovery, the Orbital Debris and Radar Calibration
Spheres, or ODERACS, and the University of Bremen satellite, or BREMSAT.
The ODERACS experiment's six metal spheres of various sizes will help
fine-tune radars worldwide that are used for studying and tracking space
debris. BREMSAT is a satellite designed by students at the University of
Bremen in Germany that will study the low Earth orbit environment.
The crew will go to sleep at 6:10 p.m. central and awaken at 2:10 a.m.
Wednesday for their seventh day in orbit. Discovery is in excellent
condition in a 192 by 190 nautical mile high orbit, completing one
revolution of Earth each 91 minutes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #12
6 a.m. CST, Wednesday, February 9, 1994
Discovery's astronauts were awakened at 2:10 CST this morning to a
variety of Russian folk tunes in honor of Mission Specialist Sergei
Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly on a U.S. spacecraft.
Shortly after their wakeup call, the astronauts used the shuttle's robot
arm to lower the 3,700-pound Wake Shield Facility onto its berthing
platform where it was locked in place for the remainder of the mission.
A loss of telemetry between payload controllers and the Wake Shield late
yesterday prevented the growth of a sixth thin film wafer.
The final tally on Wake Shield's performance shows a total of five thin
film wafers grown while the satellite was attached to the end of
Discovery's robot arm. Shortly after Wake Shield was berthed, the robot
arm was placed back in its cradle and powered down for the rest of the
flight.
Early today, Krikalev used the ham radio gear to make contact with
students at the Chariton High School in Chariton, Iowa. Commander
Charlie Bolden and Pilot Ken Reightler plan personal ham radio contacts
later today.
The astronauts expect to deploy two secondary experiments today from
canisters in Discovery's cargo bay. The first scheduled for about 8:54
a.m. is called, ODERACS, for Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Spheres.
It involves the ejection of six metal spheres to help engineers calibrate
radar tracking systems throughout the world.
The experiment had originally been scheduled on the STS-53 mission aboard
Discovery in December 1992, but was postponed because of a battery
failure in the mechanism which is used to open the lid on the canister.
This afternoon at about 1:22, a 140-pound satellite called BREMSAT is
scheduled to be spring-ejected from its canister in the bay. Built by
the University of Bremen, the satellite is designed to study various
phenomena in space, including micrometeorite movement and dust particles,
acceleration forces, atomic forces and thermal conditions.
The crew news conference is scheduled for 11:43 this morning. The crew
will answer questions from news media at the Johnson Space Center, the
Marshall Space Flight Center and the Kennedy Space Center.
Discovery is in excellent shape as it orbits the Earth every 91 minutes
at an altitude of about 210 statute miles. Discovery's homecoming is
scheduled Friday with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
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| 871.58 | RE: ODERACS... & Millstone Mass... :-) | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | | Thu Feb 10 1994 12:31 | 7 |
| I was mildly amused when after the deploy of the ODERACS metal
balls that the misson control folks referred to one of the sites
making radar contact as being the radar installation in Millstone
Massachusetts. Ahem.....I believe they meant the Millstone/MIT
radar installation in *Westford* Mass.
Bob-who-lives-in-Millstone-er...Westford :-)
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| 871.59 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 02/11/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Feb 11 1994 13:38 | 24 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, Feb. 11, 1994
KSC Contact: Lisa Malone 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-60 -- WAKE SHIELD FACILITY AND SPACEHAB 2
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 218 miles
LOCATION: on orbit, Flight Day 9 INCLINATION: 57 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: Feb. 3 CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH TIME: 7:10 a.m. EST LANDING LOCATION: KSC
MISSION DURATION: 8 days, 6 hours
The two opportunities to land at KSC today are: 12:44 p.m. and 2:19 p.m.
EST. The only opportunity to land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,
today is at 3:47 p.m. EST. Officials will continue to analyze KSC
weather conditions. There is a concern of clouds, possible rainshowers
within 30 miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility and crosswind violations.
Landing opportunities are available at KSC and EAFB on Saturday as well.
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| 871.60 | Down | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Fri Feb 11 1994 14:34 | 7 |
| Sounds like they are down. I'm listening to Nasa Select Audio, and heard them
ask the astronauts to put the SSME's in "Rain Drain" position, so I assume they
are on the ground :-)
That would also imply the landing was at KSC, 2nd opportunity.
Burns
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| 871.61 | Landing Statement | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Feb 14 1994 09:49 | 23 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-60 Status Report #17
1:30 p.m. CST, Friday, February 11, 1994
Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center at 1:19 this afternoon
completing 131 orbits of the Earth while travelling almost three and a
half million miles.
Low clouds and windy conditions prevented the landing on the first
opportunity, but weather improved as the morning progressed, allowing
Discovery and its six member crew to land in Florida after an eight day,
seven hour mission.
The crew is expected to return to Houston's Ellington Field 11:30 p.m.
and midnight following post-flight medical evaluations.
Discovery is expected to be towed to the orbiter processing facility
where it will be readied for its next mission in September.
Meanwhile Columbia was transferred from the vehicle assembly building to
launch pad 39B yesterday for final preparations for the next Shuttle
mission -- STS-62. The mission is currently targeted for launch at 7:54
central time on March 3.
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| 871.62 | WSF/MatLab-1 experiment successfully completed | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Feb 14 1994 09:50 | 60 |
| PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
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Contact: Jim Doyle
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 1994
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery was unable to deploy
the Wake Shield Facility into free-flying orbit this week, but an
experiment on the facility sponsored by the U.S. Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
was successfully completed, it was announced.
The primary experiment of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) was
to grow a thin film of compounds such as gallium arsenide in low-
Earth orbit through a process called molecular beam epitaxy. The
large, disk-shaped WFS was expected to generate what scientists
called an "ultra-vacuum" in its wake to create conditions for the
film growth process.
The BMDO- and JPL-sponsored experiment, called Materials
Laboratory-1 (MatLab-1), was on the leading, or ram, surface of
the WSF facing the direction the shuttle was orbiting.
MatLab-1, developed and integrated by Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio, was to evaluate effects caused by
atomic oxygen bombardment in low-Earth orbit. It was the third
in a series of small, fast, low-cost flight experiments funded by
the BMDO Materials and Structure Program Office. It was
implemented by the BMDO Space Environment and Effects program
managed by Dr. Ranty Liang at JPL.
An attitude control system problem prevented the WSF being
deployed into an orbit 75 kilometers (40 nautical miles) behind
the shuttle. WSF, however, remained attached to the shuttle's
remote manipulator arm, allowing the MatLab-1 experiment to
receive the exposure to space and the experiment to be completed.
Most of the 29 materials onboard MatLab-1 were candidates
provided by BMDO contractors. Among them were atomic oxygen
protective coatings and advanced composites. Several active
atomic oxygen sensors, called actinometers, were calibrated and
qualified for subsequent BMDO flight experiments on the Space
Test Experiments Platform (STEP-3) mission to be launched later
this year, said James Kenny of JPL, deputy program manager.
He said that approximately 60 hours of data, some received
in real time, were gathered and will be analyzed over the next
few weeks by the principal investigator, Dr. David Brinza of JPL.
The results will help determine which materials to use in the
space environment -- for instance, rockets, satellites, and the
Space Station -- based on weight and durability.
#####
2-10-94 JJD
#9410
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| 871.63 | Discovery Returns Home Safe (AP) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Feb 14 1994 09:52 | 63 |
| From: [email protected] (AP)
Copyright: 1994 by The Associated Press, R
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Discovery and its crew swooped
through high clouds and landed safely in Florida on Friday, ending
the first U.S. space flight with a Russian cosmonaut on board.
``You paved the way for a new era of cooperation in human space
flight,'' Mission Control told the five American astronauts and one
Russian cosmonaut.
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev became the first Russian to fly on a
U.S. shuttle when Discovery blasted off on the science mission Feb.
3.
The crew's homecoming was delayed 1 1/2 hours, or one orbit,
because of thick, low clouds and high wind at the Kennedy Space
Center.
NASA considered sending the shuttle to Edwards Air Force Base in
California, but officials said the sky cleared enough in Florida to
allow for a midafternoon landing.
Despite the unprecedented partnership, the Discovery crew failed
to accomplish one of the primary objectives of the mission --
releasing a research satellite.
The Wake Shield Facility, a steel disk, was supposed to fly free
of Discovery for two days and develop high-grade semiconductor film
in its pure-vacuum wake. It was hoped the films eventually could
lead to faster computers.
But transmission troubles and, ultimately, a bad guidance system
prevented crew members from deploying the satellite. Instead, it
developed the film while dangling on the end of Discovery's robot
arm.
Within minutes of the shuttle's 2:19 p.m. touchdown, officials
at the Russian control center for the Mir space station were on the
phone to Mission Control, congratulating their American
counterparts on Discovery's return.
The eight-day shuttle trip boosted Krikalev's time in space to
471 days, almost all of it aboard Mir. But he still lags in second
place behind world champ Musa Manarov, a Russian cosmonaut who's
spent 541 days in space.
On the way home, Discovery sailed over western Canada, Montana,
down through the Midwest and South, and on into Cape Canaveral.
Discovery circled Earth 131 times and logged 3,439,704 miles.
``It's really a beautiful ride in. I'm looking at all the
sights,'' commander Charles Bolden Jr. said as the shuttle headed
toward Florida.
The mission made history because of Krikalev's presence.
Americans and Russians flew together during the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz
docking mission, but never before had a Russian been launched on a
U.S. spacecraft or landed in one.
Another Russian cosmonaut is due to fly on a shuttle early next
year, and two American astronauts head to Russia next week to train
for a 1995 stint on Mir. Up to 10 shuttle-Mir dockings are planned
beginning in 1995, with the goal being a joint space station by
2001.
In other experiments, a small German science satellite
successfullly was released Wednesday, as were six metal balls
ejected from a cargo bay canister so space debris experts could
track them from Earth.
Discovery also carried a small commercial laboratory called
Spacehab. Most of the 12 Spacehab experiments involved
biotechnology: splitting cells, for instance, and growing protein
crystals.
Columbia is scheduled to blast off around March 3 on NASA's next
shuttle flight, a 14-day science mission. It will be Americans
only.
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| 871.64 | James Oberg's record of the STS-60 mission | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Mon Feb 21 1994 15:48 | 122 |
| Article: 52867
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space
From: [email protected] (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: James Oberg on STS-60 "by the numbers"
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 20:34:55 GMT
I am posting the following at the request of James E. Oberg, who can
now be reached at "[email protected]". Please send any comments on this
directly to him, not to me. He is not able to read Usenet newsgroups at
this time, so he will not see your replies unless you send them to him
via email.
From [email protected] Thu Feb 17 20:14:22 1994
Here's a file to share with space nuts on your nets.
STS-60 "by the numbers"
STS-60 is the world's 164th manned orbital mission. It's the 59th orbital
mission of a US space shuttle, and the 60th manned STS launch (counting
51-L). STS number happens to coincide with the actual shuttle sequence number
only about once a year. This flight is the 88th US manned orbital flight
overall; the USSR/CIS has made 76, plus two launch aborts.
This mission of five veterans brings the world's 306th rookie into orbit. Of
these 306 orbital spacefarers, 148 have flown once, 86 twice, 47 thrice, 22
four times, 2 five times, and 1 six times. Of those 306, 193 (63%) have been
US citizens, 76 (25%) were Soviets or Russians, and 37 (12%) were "other",
from 25 nations. That "25" counts East & West Germany as different nations,
plus Kazakhstan (as a sovereign part of the USSR). Pre-'92 "Soviets" were
citizens of 3 now-sovereign republics: Russia, Byelarus, and Ukraine, and so
far, 8 men (4 rookies) have flown under Russia's flag ("Russia" doesn't count
as a "new" nation different from the USSR). Yes, it gets complicated!
Counting each individual human-flight ("warm seat") as one "ticket", this new
flight will involve the 560th to 565th "tickets to orbit". The total of 397
tickets on American orbital missions are held by 210 individuals, including
20 women (one non-US); the 168 tickets on Soviet/Russian vehicles are held by
97 individuals, including 3 women (one non-Soviet). Now for the first time in
space history, a spacefarer has held tickets on BOTH American and Russian
space launches. But don't forget that the first Russians to be aboard a US
manned spacecraft in flight were Leonov and Kubasov, who visited Apollo-ASTP
in 1975.
The STS-60 crewmembers have their own statistical status, depending on
their seating uphill, numerated by convention as follows:
seat human# US#
title name class flight age
560 196 117 CDR Bolden 1980
4th 46
561 255 160 PLT Reightler 1987 2nd 42
562 280
175 MS1 Davis 1987 2nd 40
563 306 193 MS2 Sega 1990
1st 41
564 197 118 MS3 Chang-Diaz1980 4th 43
565 209 R-6
7 MS4 Krikalyov R-1985 3rd 35
Bolden and Chang-Diaz made their first space flight together in 1986 and now
are making their fourth flights together. This repeat pairing phenomenon has
occurred 15 times before in the entire shuttle program. It also happened to
Krikalyov on his first two long space missions.
Krikalyov's earlier claim to fame is that he was the first native-born "Space
Ager" spaceman, the first human born in the Space Age (which began October 4,
1957) to fly into space. He sets a special Space Shuttle milestone, too, when
'Discovery' becomes the first-ever shuttle to have carried one hundred people
into orbit and Krikalyov is exactly the 100th.
STS-60 is the 18th flight of OV-103 Discovery. OV-102 Columbia has made 15,
OV-104 Atlantis (now being refitted) has 12, and OV-105 Endeavour has made 5.
Challenger (OV-099) had 9 missions prior to 51-L (its 10th flight). Up
through this flight, 173 different folks have orbited on shuttles: 136 were
NASA astronauts, 35 were called payload specialists (two actually were
congressmen), one was an ESA MS (flew twice), and one is now a Russian MS.
These shuttlers consist of 77 onces, 55 twices, 24 thrices, 16 fourtimers,
and 1 quince. They've used 328 "warm seats", or "tickets": 100 on Discovery,
76 on Columbia, 67 on Atlantis, 53 on Challenger, and 32 on Endeavour (there
were seven more tickets on Challenger for 51-L, including 3 riders who never
reached orbit but are officially counted as "flown astronauts"). 43 men
orbited on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab (69 tickets) in 1962-1975, and
six of them flew on shuttle as well.
By the end of 1993, all the humans in orbit had accumulated 13,048
person-days of experience, 3/4 of it Russian. Late in 1992, the "average
population of space" (person-days since the time in days when manned
spaceflight began in 1961) had exceeded 1.000, and continues to grow.
Meanwhile, Soyuz TM18 (launched January 8) is the first of three Russian
humanned missions to Mir for 1994. The "15th Main Expedition", call sign
'Derbent', consists of veteran commander Viktor Afanasyev, rookie engineer
Yuriy Usachyov, and veteran space doctor Valeriy Polyakov. The commander and
engineer will be relieved by the Soyuz TM-19 crew in June, but Polyakov
expects to stay in orbit until next March when he will be relieved by the
first "American cosmonaut" on Soyuz TM-21. The eight year old Mir space
station has been manned for more than four years straight by a sequence of
Russian crews, and keeps on space trucking..
It adds up to make STS-60 (103-18) statistically highly significant!
Copyright @1994, James E. Oberg. This summary is prepared privately by space
historian and trivialogist Jim Oberg for the amusement of self, flight crew,
flight controllers, historians, news media and the general public. Any
published/broadcast references to these factlets and statistics should have
the common courtesy to acknowledge their source. The author has done his
double damnedest to verify numerical authenticity & accuracy of all data but
takes no responsibility for the consequences of errors, except personal
embarrassment and penitence.
--
Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - [email protected]
Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
"Envy is the cause of political division."
- Democritus, 460-370 BC. (Fr. 295, ed. Diels, II, 195.)
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| 871.65 | Images available | SPARKL::KLAES | Be Here Now | Mon Mar 21 1994 11:58 | 236 |
| From: VERGA::US1RMC::"VOLCANO%[email protected]"
"VOLCANO 20-Mar-1994 2342" 20-MAR-1994 23:36:48.79
To: Multiple recipients of list VOLCANO
<VOLCANO%[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: photos from Shuttle mission STS-60
I have finally compiled a list of significant photos
(requested images and otherwise) from the STS60 mission
(Feb 3-12). This was the 57 degree mission with a cosmonaut.
The returns are very good, and include alot of Russian territory.
The data are in roll-frame. rolls 97-102 are Kodak infrared film.
Rolls 104-107 are a Russian infrared film flown for the first time.
If your requested area is not listed, the imagery over that area was
probably not acquired. Although we will not have the mission film
fully catalogued for a few weeks, you can check the lat-lon
of the shuttle position when the photo was taken by accessing our
nadir-list account on the SSEOP database
(telnet SSEOP.jsc.nasa.gov, username is nadir, password is nadirlist).
As usual, the photos can be purchased from Technology Application Center
in Albuquerque, NM (505-277-3622, fax 505 277-3614).
The information needed for purchase is mission-roll-frame
(e.g. STS60-73-35 -- an image over Kamchatka).
Again, I apologize for the delay in posting this information.
Cindy Evans
Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project
[email protected]
Kamchatka volcanoes
73-35;
74-71 to 74;
82-14;
82-69;
87-6;
87-74;
87-78&79;
87-83;
93-90 to 94;
95-8&9;
112-101 to 106;
102-73;
102-76;
53-18 to 25;
56-8 to 11
104-72 to 76
Mexican volcanoes- Colima
71-060;
103-26
Alaskan volcanoes:
74-76 to 78;
94-96 & 97;
58-33 - 35
Cascades
72-39 Adams and Hood
103-23,24 Shasta
113-83 Columbia R and Adams
99-17 Adams (CIR)
99-18 Columbia R
101-26 3 sisters to Crater L
101-27 Crater L
105-26 Crater L - 3 Sisters
105-27 Crater L
S. Andes (40-44 deg S)
roll 49, frames 1-16
roll 92, frames 6-19
85-AE, AF, AG, AH
112-90 to 92
Etna (37.7N, 15E)
71-06
Los Angeles
114-77 7 80;
61-3 to 8
Ice (Great Lakes,other N Hemisphere sites)
82-42 to 46;
86-3;
87-77;
95-3 to 6;
111-3 & 4; 111-86 to 90;
112-26
Chesapeake Bay
71-41,
87-31&32
cities
6-37 (Buffalo-Toronto at nite),
roll 17, frames 1-5, 29-33 (Russian cities)
roll 35, frames 3, 8,9 (Russia)
36-14 Geneva
roll 42, fr. 1 -13 (Russia)
roll 50, fr 32-34 Buenos Aires
55-7 (Moscow)
58-12 to17 (Montreal)
61-01 (San Fran)
61-2 (San Jose)
74-38 Detroit
89-U (Moscow)
89-V (St. Pete's)
89-W (Kuybeyshev)
83-25 El Paso
83-41 Monterrey, Mx
84-3 St Louis
83-5 Detroit -lots of snow
86-3 Detroit to Buffalo
87-30 NYC
94-77 Boston
94-79 Providence
94-81 Portland Maine
94-98 Chicago
95-20 Moscow
95-64 Kiev
95-67 Sevastopol
95-71 Krasnodar
96-86 St Louis
103-31 St Pete
103-75 Pizen, Czech
103-89 Chicago
111-94 and 97 Montreal
111-105 Chicago (wide angle)
111-106 St Louis
114-67 -70 (Bay Area)
114-77 & 80 LA
99-70 Rome
101-31 and 32 San Diego
102-44 Tampa
105-31 San Diego
106-23 St Pete's
106-26 Moscow
106-72 Rome
East Africa
34-16 (Kilimanjaro)
34-18 (L. Natron)
76-80 Elgon (?)
76-83 Natron
103-12 Afar
113-10 & 11, Oldoinyo Lengai
97-56 Kilimanjaro CIR
97-58 Natron CIR
107-55 Kilimanjaro
107-58 Natron
Grand Canyon, southwest US
50- 1- to 3,
50-4 (Canyon lands),
72-41 (canyonlands),
83-4 & 6
83-16 (White sands)
83-20 & 23 (S. end Carizozo)
86-83 Canyonlands
86-84 Grand Canyon
86-87
86-93 Taos area
86-94 Jemez
86-96 White sands/Carizoo
E. Europe/Asia
76-27 E Turkey
76-29 Levant Fault
103-77 Iron gate on Danube
111-18 & 20 caucasus mtns
97-24 Sea of Galilee (CIR)
107-24 Galilee
Central Europe
60-10 to 12 (Crete)
77-13 (Po Valley);
77-14 (Trieste);
88-1 to 12 Alps
90-01 Geneva;
90-05; 90-07 Geneva;
90-08; (Rhone);
95-57 Alps,
95-92 to 95 Alps;
99-64 to 66;
36-14; 36-17; 36-23 (all Alps)
90-71 caldera south of Rome
Roanoke R. watershed (36.5N, 77.6-77.9W)
Outer Barrier Banks
87-34;
112-46
Gulf of Mexico, La-Tx coasts 42-19 (Miss delta);
85-0J;
83-44 to 51
auroras
roll 1, frames 6 , 9and 12
roll 9, frame 24
miscellaneous
77-57, 58 (Amsterdam I)
83-74 Coseguina, Nicaragua
84-26 to 45 Bahamas
86-19 to 28 Bahamas
85-B Big Bend
38-23, 24 Guyana highlands, Venezuela
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| 871.66 | Interviews with Krikalev and Bolden | JVERNE::KLAES | Be Here Now | Tue Mar 22 1994 17:37 | 236 |
| Article: 1181
From: [email protected] (DAVE MCKISSOCK)
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech
Subject: Interviews with Krikalev & Bolden
Date: 21 Mar 1994 11:42 EST
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
An article from the Winter 1994 edition of NASA Magazine, called
"Partners" - "The STS-60 mission may mark the beginning of a long and
fruitful relationship between the Russians and the Americans" ...
Sergei Krikalev says he doesn't think of himself as an historic
figure. But this winter he will become the first Russian cosmonaut to
fly on the Space Shuttle - opening a new era of cooperating between
the two former space rivals.
The 35-year-old Krikalev has logged more time in space than any
other person except his colleague Musa Manarov. In 1988 he spent
five months onboard the Mir space station, then returned for a
ten-month stay in 1991, during which he watched the breakup of
the Soviet Union from his perch high above the planet.
For more than a year, he and his backup Vladimir Titov have been
in Houston training for the upcoming STS-60 flight onboard
Discovery. During that time, the rest of the mission's crew -
Commander Charles Bolden, Pilot Kenneth Reightler, and fellow
Mission Specialists Franklin Chang-Diaz, Jan Davis and Ronald
Sega - have become something of a Krikalev fan club.
"He is probably the best ambassador the cosmonaut program could
have sent here," says Chang-Diaz, while Reightler remarks with a
trace of envy, "I'm real proud of my five days in space - and
he's got fifteen months!"
Krikalev and STS-60 Commander Bolden took time out from their
busy training schedules in November to talk with Johnson Space
Center public affairs specialist Rob Navis about their historic
flight. Edited versions of those interviews are printed here.
- Editor
*** Sergei Krikalev ***
Q - After spending more than a year in orbit and performing
seven spacewalks on two missions, what type of experience do
you bring to this crew and this particular mission?
A - This is a different mission, because it is a short-duration,
a relatively big crew, and another vehicle. So some experiences
[of a cosmonaut] may not be applicable for Space Shuttle. But
some are - [like] our point of view on experiments, or on safety,
or schedule. We exchange opinions with our crewmates, and this
exchanging of experiences is interesting for both sides.
Q - What was your reaction when you were selected along with
Vladimir Titov to come here and train to fly on the Space Shuttle?
A - It was less than half a year after my long 10-month flight,
but it was very exciting for me, because I knew it would give me
other experiences and knowledge about spaceflight. So I thought
it would be interesting. And I have found that it is.
Q - Let's discuss the differences between training for the Space
Shuttle and training for the Mir.
A - Our crews fly twice per year approximately, our flights are
longer and we have more experiments. It looks to us that we have
more feedback from the crew on experiments - on the sequence of
experiments, on the flight schedule and on the flight program itself.
Some differences are easy to explain, because we're flying
different vehicles. The Soyuz vehicle flies and docks with the
station in just a short period of time, and so most of the time
is spent on the space station, when we usually don't change our
orbit. Sometimes we could use our Soyuz vehicle as an emergency
vehicle, but it's just a small part of a big job.
Another difference is that we fly in crews of two or three,
usually. And in this case, we know all the experiments. {If} I am
the prime [crewmember] on some experiments, my partner will
backup for me. And in cases where he is a prime, I will be a
backup. Because we have six crewmembers [on the Shuttle] we can
divide our job, and one, two or three crewmembers could be very
familiar with one system or experiment. And the others could just
have a "big picture."
Q - Does it seem like an eight-day mission is kind of simple in
comparison to your longer mission?
A - It's simple from one point of view, because it is a short-
duration flight. For us, it's unusual to hear about "long-
duration" flights on Space Shuttle [that last only] 12 days or 14
days. All of those flights, from our point of view, are short-
duration flights. But from another side, it's not easy for us.
It's a new language, new systems, new ideology of [designing]
experiments. When I start to work with a new experiment in
Russia, we have some kind of standard interface between equipment
and crew. In this case [the Shuttle] it's a little bit different.
Again, it is interesting for us to get this kind of new experience.
Q - How challenged have you felt stepping into this new environment?
A - It was difficult - a difficult year for Vlad and me. And one
of the reasons is the short period of time that we had to study.
We had to study a lot of systems. We had to study language, and
all this came at the same time. And the period of time was very
short for the volume of knowledge.
Q - How have you and your family adapted to life in the United States?
A - Of course, my wife and I and even my small daughter have
been homesick. I miss my friends, my relatives. [Before my] long
duration flight, it was a long time preparing. And then [came]
the flight. And then a relative short rest. [Now] it's like the
flight for me again. I'm away from my home, and I'm in an unusual
environment with a 12- to 14-hour working day.
Q - You said earlier that at this point in your career you did
not feel as if you were a part of history. But your pilot,
Ken Reightler, says that your presence onboard the Shuttle
is in fact a history-making event, because it opens up a new
avenue of joint-cooperation. Do you sense that?
A - I hope it will open a new kind of relationship and new
thinking. Even a few years ago it was very difficult to imagine
that somebody from America would visit our environment and train
in our space program, and somebody from Russia would come to NASA
and train in this restricted access environment. So I think it is
a good idea. But I don't know [about] history. For me when you
talk about history, I [think about] the bones of dinosaurs. I
don't think I'm a dinosaur yet.
*** Charles Bolden ***
Q - Is one byproduct of this flight that we've learned something
from Sergei and Vladimir that will allow us to understand
Mir better and make our astronauts' experience much easier
when they get over to Russia to begin training next year?
A - I think definitely that will be the case. And I'll give you
some concrete examples. As a [mission] commander, I realized from
the beginning that I had some very, very valuable assets in the
form of these two people. And I wanted to make them available to
the [U.S. space] community as much as possible, with a minimal
impact on our training. So what we have tried to do is find
little chunks of time where [the cosmonauts] could go out and
associate with the rest of the space community here. Sergei, for
example, recently spent about two hours with our inflight
maintenance folk, just giving them a presentation on some of the
inflight maintenance types of things that he accomplished in his
15 months on Mir. They were beside themselves. They saw similar
techniques, but they also saw some things they had never even
thought about.
To me it would be stupid to bring such talented people as Sergei
and Vladimir here and not utilize that talent in helping to
educate us - me, the trainers, the flight controllers and
everybody - with all the experience they have. They have more
time walking in space than we have almost in our whole space program.
So I think it would be very unwise not to utilize the talent.
Q - Is STS-60 the vanguard in creating the atmosphere that will
be the cornerstone of a joint space station effort?
A - ... I think this was the ice breaker. We think this is the
way we want to operate on space station. But it ain't going to be
that easy unless people are willing to modify their thinking, and
unless people are willing to admit that "they" are just as
important as "we" are, and that everybody has something to bring
to the table. So let's not try to slight anybody. Let's not think
that we know what's best, and just say "We'll tell you what to
bring." Because it'll never work if you try to do it that way.
Q - We're talking about trust, right?
A - ... You're right. The way that our crew is organized is
drastically different from the way we've every done it with a
non-American astronaut. Sergei and Vladimir are training as
mission specialists. And people keep making the mistake that,
"Oh, well, you have Russian Payload Specialists." No, we don't.
We have two guys who are training as members of the Shuttle
orbiter crew, not as payload crewmembers. In the case of Sergei,
he is my prime inflight maintenance person. He is my prime RMS
[Remote Manipulator System] operator for the grapple of the Wake
Shield Facility [a device to create a high-quality vacuum for
experiments]. If I don't trust him and his abilities, I'm in
trouble, because he is an integral part of my crew. In our
simulations we always have things break. We hope it won't happen
in flight, but in the simulations we've already had cases where
we've had to do extensive inflight maintenance. And I couldn't go
and hold his hand. Sergei and somebody else from the crew who
wasn't even trained for inflight maintenance had to go heading
off and coordinating with the ground. And he has done that
superbly. He has been extremely helpful to us in developing the
specific procedures that we're going to use for the remote
manipulator system. So hopefully he trusts us as much as I trust
him. And I think that's vital.
Q - Tell us how you have bridged the cultural differences
[between the astronauts and cosmonauts]. How might history
record your flight?
A - I think, quite honestly, that history will forget the
*flight*. And history will record, in detail, what happened in
the 12 to 13 months *leading up to* the flight, because it's been
during this time, since last October when Sergei and Vladimir
came to America, that we have been able to demonstrate that we
can in fact work together as a team.
And I think we have done that very well.
Having Sergei and his family and Vladimir and his family come
here, with several members of each family not speaking any
English, and getting them integrated into a community where
people have accepted them and have become very good neighbors to
them - I think that is the critical part about the whole flight.
So when it gets down to it, people may not even remember the
flight 20 years from now. But they will be able to look back, I
hope, and say this crew of people from two very different
countries helped to prove that all these things we thought we
could do - all this Star Trek stuff, you know, where people live
together and work together from different planets, not just
countries - really can be done.
Q - Do you think this joint cooperation is the only way space
exploration can thrive in the future?
A - The things that I would like to see the space program do -
go back to another planet, which right now seems like Mars, go
back to the lunar surface - are only practical to do in
partnerships of spacefaring nations, from a financial standpoint.
And what better way to do it than by partnering up the two
leaders in the space challenge - the United States and Russia -
to make that happen. And I think the sooner we can effect this
marriage and get things working smoothly, the sooner we'll be on
our way to Mars or to some other planet.
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We now have over 4000 new image files available for downloading. They
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060NADIR.TXT contains the nadir positions for the photographs sorted
by mission, roll, frame. The file 060NADIR.SRT contains the nadir
positions sorted by latitude, longitude. After the photographs have
been catalogued, the images will be cross referenced in the photos
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