yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (05/08/89)
KSC SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT FOR - MONDAY, MAY 8, 1989 STS-28 - COLUMBIA (OV 102) - OPF BAY 1 Last week, Columbia's three main engines were installed and are scheduled to undergo testing this week. The right orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pod has also been installed. Technicians are scheduled to install the left OMS pod overnight. Interface testing of the OMS pods is scheduled this week. The orbiter's potty has been installed and functional checks are planned this week. The radiators are scheduled to be cleaned and stowed for flight in the next few days. Tile technicians are continuing to bond tiles and thermal blankets. This morning 243 cavities were reported. Columbia is scheduled to remain in bay 1 until late June when it will be transferred to the VAB for mating with its external tank and solid rocket boosters. STS-33 - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - OPF BAY 2 Technicians are preparing Discovery for its roll to the OMRF on Thursday. The Ku-band antenna will be stowed and the payload bay doors will be closed in the next few days. Discovery is being transferred to the OMRF to make room for Atlantis when it returns to KSC this coming weekend. STS-30 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - HANGAR AF The solid rocket boosters were towed from their impact area offshore and arrived at Hangar AF by 6 p.m. Friday night. Today, hydrolasing activities are underway to strip off the closeout material on the boosters. The boosters will be disassembled and shipped back to Morton Thiokol for refurbishment. STS-28 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - VAB The right forward center segment was mated early Sunday morning. This week, the right forward segment and right forward assembly are scheduled to be stacked completing the stacking operations for this set. Joint closeouts are active. STS-34 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - RPSF Technicians are building up the right and left aft boosters in the Rotation Processing and Surge Facility.
jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (05/10/89)
From article <25118@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee): > > The orbiter's potty has been installed and functional checks > are planned this week. Errrrr. I suppose that means a whole load of engineers eating beans, curry and rhubarb. :-) -- ______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight, / BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science / _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.
ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (France) (05/11/89)
In article <605@kl-cs.UUCP>, jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: > From article <25118@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee): > > > > The orbiter's potty has been installed and functional checks > > are planned this week. > > Errrrr. I suppose that means a whole load of engineers eating beans, curry > and rhubarb. :-) > -- Um. Someone care to tell me how they plan to test an O Gee Whiz in a 1-gee field? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Matthew DeLuca : Georgia Institute of Technology : [This space for rent] ARPA: ccoprmd@hydra.gatech.edu : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/12/89)
In article <605@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: >> The orbiter's potty has been installed and functional checks >> are planned this week. > >Errrrr. I suppose that means a whole load of engineers eating beans, curry >and rhubarb. :-) Don't laugh; you do realize, I trust, that the thing had to be tested in free fall before being flown for the first time, and that meant doing it in the KC-135, with only about 30 seconds of free fall available? This was actually the second time this issue came up, since the Skylab toilet had the same problem. Turns out that there are people with the slightly unusual, um, ability required... -- Mars in 1980s: USSR, 2 tries, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 2 failures; USA, 0 tries. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu