11.04.05

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-3749)

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

STATUS REPORT: S-110405

NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT

Note: NASA's Kennedy Space Center issues Space Shuttle Processing 
Status Reports each week, and is the source for information regarding 
processing activities associated with the vehicles and payloads. This 
report does not necessarily reflect the chronological order of future 
Space Shuttle missions. If you are a member of the media and would 
like further information, visit 
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/index.html. 

Discovery (OV-103)

Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight, second 
test mission 
Payload: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module 
Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 
Launch Date: No earlier than May 2006 
Launch Pad: 39B 
Crew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter 

Main landing gear wheel and tire assembly and installation are 
complete. Pyrotechnic connection completed this week, and the drag 
chute installed. Water spray boilers No. 1 and 3 were serviced and 
are both undergoing a 24-hour decay check. 

Atlantis (OV-104)

Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight 
Payload: P3/P4 Solar Arrays 
Location: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 
Launch Date: TBD 
Launch Pad: 39B 
Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper 

S-band antenna installation complete. Thermal protection system gap 
filler inspections and rework continue in the forward and mid-body 
areas. All zones are identified and mapping is complete in three of 
the 10 zones. Mapping will be complete in all zones by Thanksgiving 
and pull tests will begin. This work is being performed due to two 
gap fillers protruding from the underside of Discovery on the first 
return to flight mission, STS-114. 

Endeavour (OV-105)

In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2, the orbiter continues processing 
following a nearly two-year major modification period. In the payload 
bay, drive shaft installation on manipulator positioning mechanisms 
is under way. The mechanisms are the pedestals that hold the remote 
manipulator system, or shuttle arm, in the payload bay. 

Work continues to reinstall both the body flap and the rudder speed 
brake. The speed brake was removed to ensure the gears in the 
actuators were installed in the proper configuration prior to flight. 


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

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle



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