Space Shuttle Processing Status Report, 25-07-2005

Jessica Rye
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)

STATUS REPORT: S05-034

NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT

Discovery (OV-103)

Mission: STS-114 - 17th ISS Flight (LF1)
Payload: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
Location: Launch Pad 39B
Launch Date: July 26, 2005 at 10:39 a.m. EDT
Launch Pad: 39B
Crew: Collins, Kelly, Noguchi, Robinson, Thomas, Lawrence and Camarda
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

Space Shuttle Discovery is at Launch Pad 39B undergoing final
inspections and preparations for tomorrow's Return to Flight launch
attempt at 10:39 a.m. to the International Space Station. The
countdown clock is in a scheduled built-in hold at T-11 hours (Time
Minus 11 hours) and will pick up at 5:44 p.m. EDT tonight.

Loading of the Power Reactant Storage Distribution system is complete.
This is the operation where the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for
the fuel cells is loaded on Discovery. The fuel cells provide power
to the electrical systems while the Shuttle is in orbit. The
byproduct is drinking water. The Rotating Service Structure will be
rotated away from Discovery this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in
preparation for launch.

The STS-114 crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Friday. Since
Friday, Commander Eileen Collins and Pilot Jim Kelly have been
practicing orbiter approaches and landings in the Shuttle Training
Aircraft. The crew is scheduled to wake up just after midnight
tonight and will leave Crew Quarters for the launch pad at 6:49 a.m.
tomorrow.

Solid Rocket Booster retrieval ships Liberty Star and Freedom Star
departed from KSC yesterday and are traveling to their location for
launch, about 140 nautical miles downrange of the launch pad.

Today, the L-1 day weather forecast shows that the probability of
weather prohibiting the launch of Discovery is 40 percent, with the
probability of weather prohibiting tanking at only five percent.
Temperature at launch time is forecast at 84 degrees and a relative
humidity of 77 percent.

Previous Space Shuttle processing status reports are available on the
Internet at:

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/


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