yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (03/18/89)
MISSION STATUS REPORT #17
FLIGHT DAY FIVE
Friday, March 17, 1989 -- 6:00 am CST
Early morning crew activities included preparation for
tomorrow's landing at Edwards Air Force Base with checkouts
of the Orbiter's flight control surfaces and reaction control
system used during reentry.
Consistent with normal operations for Space Shuttle missions,
the crew will wrap up operations on all onboard experiments
and stow any equipment used during the mission.
In addition to cabin stow procedures and onboard system
checks, Discovery's crew members plan to continue Earth
observation photography using payload bay, handheld and IMAX
cameras.
Also today, a maneuver of the Orbiter to assist a final run
of the Space Station Heatpipe Advanced Radiator Element or
SHARE is planned this morning. The crew will document the
double rotation of the vehicle using IMAX and also power on
the accelerometer on the CHROMEX plant cell division
experiment in order to get an accurate rate of acceleration
during the manuever.
If SHARE does not respond following the maneuver, the crew
will terminate the experiment and conduct an additional run
of the water dump detailed test objective and AMOS
experiments performed yesterday.
The next status report will be at about 9:30 am CST.