Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ames.arc.nasa.gov!yee From: yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Shuttle Status for 09/26/89 (Forwarded) Message-ID: <32580@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 26 Sep 89 19:54:01 GMT Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 53 KSC SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT - TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1989 STS-34 - ATLANTIS (OV 104) - PAD 39-B Overnight, workers installed ordnance devices and tested the firing circuits on the vehicle. Preparations are scheduled today for loading the dewars on the pad with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants. Dewar load is planned for early tomorrow morning. These propellants will be loaded into Atlantis' power reactant storage distribution system during the launch countdown. The orbiter's hydraulic system is being prepared for the main engine flight readiness test scheduled for Thursday. Software is being loaded into the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) computer today for an IUS countdown test scheduled on Friday. Launch remains targeted for Oct. 12 at 1:29 p.m. Eastern Time. The official launch date will be set at the conclusion of the Flight Readiness Review scheduled for Oct. 2-3 here at KSC. STS-33 - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - OPF BAY 1 Technicians have begun cleaning the payload bay beginning with the aft end of the bay and working forward as rollover preparations continue. Discovery is schedueld to be transferred to the Vehicle Assembly Building in less than two weeks. Hydraulic operations are planned this week. These include a final cycle of the aerosurfaces and a brake anti-skid test. A flight pressurization test of the main propulsion system helium system is scheduled Thursday. Only nine tile cavities remain. STS-32 - COLUMBIA (OV 102) - OPF BAY 2 The orbiter was powered up at 9:30 this morning with no problems. The payload bay doors are scheduled to be opened today. This will allow a detailed inspection of any water penetration from the inadvertent activation of the Firex water system on Sunday. Thermal protection system operations are underway today to get the system ready for flight. Routine tests of the orbiter's systems are scheduled to resume tomorrow. STS-33 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - VAB Technicians are bonding the last piece of closeout cork on the right forward segment today. Preparations to mate the external tank are underway. The tank will be transferred to the high bay this afternoon and mated early tomorrow morning. STS-32 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - VAB Technicians are calibrating instrumentation on the left aft booster today. The left aft center segment is scheduled for stacking the end of the week.