Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!techpubs From: techpubs@PRC.Unisys.COM (Technical Pub. Vince Short) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 11/07/90 (Forwarded) Message-ID: <15536@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 8 Nov 90 17:44:09 GMT References: <1990Nov7.223315.27417@news.arc.nasa.gov> Organization: Unisys Corporation, Paoli Research Center; Paoli, PA Lines: 47 From : > KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1990 10 A.M. > > STS-39 - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - OPF BAY 1 ^^ Discovery is being prepared for STS-39? Where did STS-39 come from? In the launch manifest of January 1990 I see the following flights: STS Vehicle Payload Launch Date Planned Actual Launch Date 36 Atlantis DOD 90 02 22 90 02 28 31 Discovery HST 90 04 18 90 04 24 35 Columbia ASTRO-1 90 05 09 Early 90 12 ? 38 Atlantis DOD 90 07 09 90 11 15 ? 40 Columbia SLS-1 90 08 29 ? 41 Discovery ULYSSES 90 10 05 90 10 06 37 Atlantis GRO 90 11 01 ? 42 Columbia IML-1 90 12 12 ? 43 Discovery TDRS-E 91 01 31 ? 44 Atlantis DOD 91 03 04 ? and then continuing up in numerical order. So, if the Discovery's next mission is STS-39, what is the payload? When and with what vehicle will STS-43 (TDRS-E) be flown? Also, will Columbia's next mission after ASTRO-1 be STS-40 (SLS-1) or STS-42 (IML-1)? And will Atlantis's next mission after STS-38 (DOD) be STS-37 (GRO) or the last of the DOD shuttle missions (STS-44)? And finally, was there a launch manifest released in June 1990? Perhaps that explains much of this and for some reason I missed it. Note: SLS - Space Life Sciences Laboratory GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory IML - International Microgravity Laboratory Joseph M. Fedock Unisys/DS/EISG/VFL Paoli, PA 19301 (215) 648-2495 techpubs@PRC.Unisys.COM