NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S-061606

06.16.06

Tracy Young
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468

STATUS REPORT: S-061606

NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT

Note: NASA's Kennedy Space Center issues Space Shuttle Processing
Status Reports periodically and is the source for information
regarding processing activities associated with the vehicles and
payloads. This report does not necessarily reflect the chronological
order of future space shuttle missions. If you are a member of the
media and would like further information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/index.html

Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1.1) -
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103)
Location: Launch Pad 39B
Launch Date: Launch Processing Window July 1-19, 2006
Launch Pad: 39B
Crew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

Aft closeout work continues, with technicians performing final
cleaning, inspections and installation of panels and thermal blankets
on the avionics bays. Mid-body closeouts in the payload bay are
scheduled to be completed today and the payload bay doors will be
closed for flight this evening. The space shuttle main engine sensor
checkouts were completed on Thursday. Flight crew systems workers
de-stowed equipment from the crew cabin following completion of the
Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test on Thursday, and are scheduled
to install the extravehicular maneuvering units (the suits worn by
shuttle crew members for spacewalks) on Saturday.

NASA managers are meeting at KSC today for the Flight Readiness Review
that is expected to culminate in the setting of a launch date on
Saturday.

Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight (12A) -
P3/P4 Solar Arrays
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 1
Launch Date: No earlier than Aug. 28, 2006
Launch Pad: 39B
Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, closeout work on Atlantis
continues. Window No. 5 was replaced. Preparations for servicing of
freon coolant loop No. 2 are under way. The coolant loop is part of
the system that cools the avionics bays in the midbody and the aft of
the orbiter. Main propulsion system leak checks are complete and the
point sensor box was replaced.

In the Vehicle Assembly Building, stacking of the STS-115 solid rocket
boosters continues. Mating of the left aft center segment was
completed Thursday, and the left forward center segment is scheduled
to be lifted into high bay No. 3.

Processing of the external fuel tank, ET-118, continues in the Vehicle
Assembly Building. Workers from the Michoud Assembly Facility in
Louisiana are at KSC and will remove and replace the tank's liquid
hydrogen engine cutoff sensors, or fuel gauges, next week.

Endeavour (OV-105)

Powered-up system testing continues on Endeavour in Orbiter Processing
Facility bay 2 following an extensive modification period. Mass
spectrometer leak checks were performed this week on the system that
provides nitrogen to the crew cabin. Work continues on the orbiter
boom sensor system manipulator positioning mechanisms, which are the
pedestals that support the boom. Hydrogen tank No. 4 was installed.
There are a total of five oxygen tanks and five hydrogen tanks that
supply the fuel cells in the orbiter.


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