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NEXT SCHEDULED MISSION:
STS-96
MISSION: STS-96 - 2nd U.S. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
LOCATION: OPF bay 1
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: May 20, 1999 at 9:32 a.m. EDT
TARGET LANDING DATE/TIME: May 30, 1999 at 5:28 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 5-10 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 19 hours and 56 minutes
CREW: Rominger, Husband, Ochoa, Jernigan, Barry, Payette,
Tokarev
ADDITIONAL PAYLOADS: ICC, STARSHINE, SVF and IVHM
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6
degrees
STS-96 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):
* Shuttle main engine installation (Mar. 15)
* Crew Equipment Interface Test (Mar. 24)
* Orbiter rolls to VAB for mate to ET/SRB stack (April 12)
* Shuttle rolls to Launch Pad 39B (April 19)
STS-93
MISSION: STS-93 - Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF)
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 2
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: July 9, 1999 at 1:19 a.m.
EDT
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 14, 1999 at 12:20 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 46 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours
CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45
degrees
STS-99
MISSION: STS-99 - SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM)
VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
LOCATION: OPF bay 2
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16 at 8:47 a.m. EDT
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 27 at 12:52 p.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 4 hours and 5 minutes
CREW: Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 126 nautical miles/57 degrees
STS-101
MISSION: STS-101 - 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT
SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE / ICC
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
LOCATION: OPF bay 3
TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 14, 1999 about 9:30 p.m. EDT
(under
review)
TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Oct. 25, 1999 about 4:30 p.m.
EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 5-10 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 10 days and 19 hours
CREW: Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Tsang Lu, Williams, Malenchenko,
Morukov
ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6
degrees
NOTE:
NASA has recently announced an "EMERGENCY
MISSION" to repair defective gyro's on the Hubble Space Telescope, to be
launched sometime in October. Further details will be posted as they become
available.
