yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (07/21/88)
KSC SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT FOR - Wed. July 20, 1988
STS-26 - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - PAD 39-B
Preparations are active for next week's Wet Countdown
Demonstration Test (WCDDT) and Flight Readiness Firing (FRF).
Technicians are closing out the aft compartment today and a
frequency response test of Discovery's main engines is scheduled
to be conducted later today.
A simulation of the FRF is scheduled to be conducted from
Firing Room 1 on Friday to give the launch team practice and
verify software. The "wet" tanking test is scheduled to begin
with the call-to-stations at 11:30 p.m. Friday, July 22 and will
culminate at 7 a.m. Monday, July 25. A few hours after the WCCDT
T-0, the countdown clock will be reset for the FRF which is
scheduled to culmintate with a 22-second test firing of
Discovery's main engines at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, July 28.
STS-27 - ATLANTIS (0V 104) - OPF BAY 2
Workers are making preparations to install the forward
reaction control system in Atlantis on Saturday. The FRCS is
scheduled to arrive from the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility
tomorrow. Systems testing of the power reactant storage and
distribution system is underway this week. Two of the four closed
circuit television cameras have been installed and operations to
install the other cameras are underway. Preparations for checking
out the water spray boilers are active with the check out
scheduled to begin tomorrow.
STS-28 - COLUMBIA (OV 102) - OPF BAY 1
Orbiter modifications scheduled today include crew escape,
RTV heat sink and 17-inch external tank disconnect. Preparations
are underway to remove the nose cap this week to allow access for
structural inspections. Tiles being removed from the left side of
the vertical stabilizer will be replaced with thermal blanket
material.
STS-27 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS - RPSF
The left and right aft boosters are being "built up" in the
RPSF in preparation for stacking in the Vehicle Assembly
Building. Today, development flight instrumentation will be
routed and preparations for foaming the external tank attach ring
are scheduled today. Stacking operations are scheduled to begin
the end of the month in high bay 3 of the VAB on mobile launcher
platform 1.