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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 851.1 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/18/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri May 21 1993 13:23 | 34 |
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, May 18, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter power up operations
* Ferry kit removal
* Waste tank removal
* Hydraulic power-up and re-position elevons
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Hypergolic fuel purges
* SLS-2 mission sequence test (May 24-27)
* Removal of Spacelab D-2 module (Wednesday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Open payload bay doors
* Tailcone removal
* Payload bay doors latch and functional tests
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| 851.2 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/19/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri May 21 1993 13:24 | 35 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, May 19, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations for hypergolic deservice
* Electrical demates of Spacelab D-2
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Hypergolic fuel purges
* Removal of Spacelab D-2 module
* SLS-2 mission sequence test (May 24-27)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Gauss camera film removal
* Waste tank removal
* Orbiter power up operations
* Hydraulic power-up and re-position elevons
* Open payload bay doors
* Payload bay doors latch and functional tests
* Ferry kit removal
* Tailcone removal
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| 851.3 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/20/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri May 21 1993 13:24 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, May 20, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations for hypergolic deservice
* Removal of GAS cans from payload bay
* Auxiliary power unit catch bottle drain
* Main propulsion system post flight inspections
* Main engine post flight inspections
WORK SCHEDULED:
* SLS-2 mission sequence test (May 24-27)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Removal of Spacelab D-2 and transport to Operations and Checkout Building
* Hydraulic power-up and reposition elevons
* Payload bay doors latch and functional tests
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| 851.4 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/24/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed May 26 1993 13:18 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, May 24, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations for hypergolic deservice
* Main engine post flight inspections
* Open payload bay doors
* SLS-2 mission sequence test
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Hypergolic deservice
* Remove dome heatshields
WORK COMPLETED:
* Installation of waste water tank
* Stow Ku-band antenna
* Accelerometer installation
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| 851.5 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/25/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed May 26 1993 13:18 | 35 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, May 25, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Hypergolic deservice
* Remove dome heatshields
* Replace landing gear tires
* Main engine post flight inspections
* SLS-2 mission sequence test
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Auxiliary power unit lube oil servicing
* TACAN system test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Open payload bay doors
* Preparations for hypergolic deservice
* Installation of waste water tank
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| 851.6 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 05/27/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Jun 01 1993 17:00 | 33 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, May 27, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Liquid hydrogen line leak and functional checks
* Preparations to remove main engines
* Hypergolic deservice preparations
* SLS-2 mission sequence test
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove main engines
* Auxiliary power unit lube oil servicing
* Fuel cell voltage tests (Friday)
* Hypergolic deservice operations
WORK COMPLETED:
* Cycle payload bay doors
* TACAN system test
* Replace landing gear tires
* Remove dome heatshields from main engines
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| 851.7 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/01/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Jun 01 1993 17:03 | 33 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, June 1, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Liquid hydrogen line leak and functional checks
* Preparations to remove main engines
* Hypergolic deservice preparations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove main engines
* Auxiliary power unit lube oil servicing
* Hypergolic deservice operations
WORK COMPLETED:
* Cycle payload bay doors
* TACAN system test
* Replace landing gear tires
* Remove dome heatshields from main engines
* Fuel cell voltage tests
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| 851.8 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/02/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jun 03 1993 13:10 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, June 2, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbital maneuvering system quick disconnect checks
* Remove and replace thruster from left OMS pod
* Hypergolic deservice preparations
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Preparations to remove main engines
* Operations to remove fifth cryogenic tank set
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove main engines
* Hypergolic deservice operations
WORK COMPLETED:
* Liquid hydrogen line leak and functional checks
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| 851.9 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/04/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Jun 07 1993 13:44 | 27 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, June 4, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
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STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Operations to remove fifth cryogenic tank set
* Orbital maneuvering system hypergolic deservice preparations
* Auxiliary power unit catch bottle drain
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Preparations to remove main engines
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Close OPF bay this weekend for hypergolic deservice operations
* Remove main engines
WORK COMPLETED:
* Remove and replace thruster from left OMS pod
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| 851.10 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/07/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Jun 09 1993 13:29 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, June 7, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
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STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Operations to remove fifth cryogenic tank set
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Preparations to remove Ku-Band deploy assembly
* Preparations to remove main engines
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Remove main engines
* Drag chute installation
WORK COMPLETED:
* Auxiliary power unit catch bottle drain
* Orbital maneuvering system hypergolic deservice preparations
* Remove and replace thruster from left OMS pod
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| 851.11 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Jun 09 1993 13:29 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, June 8, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
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STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Operations to remove fifth cryogenic tank set
* Remove main engines
* Configure payload bay for SLS-2
* Drag chute installation
* Remove Ku-Band deploy assembly
* Preparations to install extended duration orbiter (EDO) pallet
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Waste containment system checks and tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Preparations for engine removal
* Auxiliary power unit catch bottle drain
* Orbital maneuvering system hypergolic deservice preparations
* Remove and replace thruster from left OMS pod
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| 851.12 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/11/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Jun 14 1993 13:37 | 26 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, June 11, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations to install extended duration orbiter (EDO) pallet
* Waste containment system checks and tests
* Drag chute installation
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install extended duration orbiter pallet
WORK COMPLETED:
* Cabin heat checks
* Remove fifth cryogenic tank set
* Remove all three main engines
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| 851.13 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/15/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jun 17 1993 12:50 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, June 15, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58 -
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations to install extended duration orbiter pallet
* Waste containment system checks and tests
* Install Ku-Band deploy assembly
* Ball strut tie-rod assembly joint inspections
* Orbital maneuvering system functional checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install extended duration orbiter pallet (Friday)
* Helium system leak and functional checks
WORK COMPLETED:
* Drag chute installation
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| 851.14 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/16/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jun 17 1993 12:51 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, June 16, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
STS-58 -
Mission: STS-58/SLS-2 Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2 Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations to install extended duration orbiter pallet
* Waste containment system checks and tests
* Ball strut tie-rod assembly joint inspections
* Orbital maneuvering system functional checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Install extended duration orbiter pallet (Friday)
* Helium system leak and functional checks
WORK COMPLETED:
* Install Ku-Band deploy assembly
* Aerosurface repositioning
* Drag chute installation
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| 851.15 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 06/23/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Jun 24 1993 18:51 | 31 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, June 23, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
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-----------------------------STS-58------------------------------
MISSION: STS-58/SLS-2 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 INCLINATION: 39 degrees
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 CREW SIZE: 7
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
IN WORK TODAY:
* Extended duration orbiter pallet power reactant storwage and
distribution system checks
* Orbital maneuvering system functional checks
* Auxiliary power unit leak and functional checks
* Helium system leak and functional checks
* Main propulsion system leak checks
* Solid rocket booster stacking operations in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Hydraulic flight control checks
* Forward reaction control system functional checks
WORK COMPLETED:
* Electrical mates to extended duration orbiter pallet
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| 851.16 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/06/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Jul 07 1993 14:03 | 33 |
| SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, July 6, 1993
Mitch Varnes
Kennedy Space Center
Public Information Office
STS-58
Vehicle: OV-102/Columbia Mission: STS-58
Location: OPF bay 2 Altitude: 250 nm
Payload: Spacelab Life Sciences 2 Inclination:39 degrees
Targeted launch: second week of September Crew Size: 7
Landing Site: EAFB, California Duration: 14 days
STS-58 In-Work
- Waterproofing of Orbital Maneuvering System pods
- Closeouts of Extended Duration Orbiter pallet & feedlines
- Configuring of crew compartment
- Potable water servicing
STS-58 Work Scheduled
- Continuation of above items scheduled through mid-week
STS-58 Work Completed:
- Moisture checks of EDO pallet lines
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| 851.17 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/12/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Jul 13 1993 20:39 | 36 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, July 12, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Corrosion repairs on leading edge of wings
* Payload bay closeouts
* Solid rocket booster stacking operations in Vehicle Assembly
Building high bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Air frame structural inspections
* Aerosurface positioning and hydraulic operations
* Install spacelab
* Main engine installation
WORK COMPLETED:
* Structural x-rays
* Potable water servicing
* Rudder speed brake corrosion checks
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| 851.18 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/13/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Jul 13 1993 20:41 | 37 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, July 13, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical door functional checks
* Corrosion repairs on leading edge of wings and rudder speed brake
* Payload bay closeouts
* Solid rocket booster stacking operations in Vehicle Assembly Building high
bay 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Air frame structural inspections
* Aerosurface positioning and hydraulic operations
* Install spacelab in orbiter's payload bay
* Main engine installation
* Orbital maneuvering system electrical redundancy checks
WORK COMPLETED:
* Structural x-rays
* Potable water servicing
* Rudder speed brake corrosion checks
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| 851.19 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/26/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Jul 26 1993 20:14 | 31 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, July 26, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine heatshield installation
* External tank and solid rocket booster electrical mates in the
Vehicle Assembly Building
* Install main engine no. 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Spacelab tunnel integration verification tests
* Spacelab end-to-end tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Installed main engines 1 and 2
* Install Spacelab tunnel
* External tank/solid rocket booster mechanical mates
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| 851.20 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/27/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Jul 28 1993 15:35 | 31 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, July 27, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Spacelab integration verification tests
* Main engine heatshield and carrier panel installation
* External tank and solid rocket booster electrical mates in the
Vehicle Assembly Building
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Spacelab end-to-end tests
* Crew equipment interface test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Main engine installation and leak checks
* Install Spacelab tunnel
* External tank/solid rocket booster mechanical mates
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| 851.21 | Crew List | TROOA::SKLEIN | Nulli Secundus | Wed Jul 28 1993 20:00 | 12 |
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The following is the crew list for the flight:
STS 58 - Columbia (15) September 10 1993
- SLS-2; EDO
- Commander: John Blaha (4)
- Pilot: Richard Searfoss+
- PC/MS1: Rhea Seddon (3)
- FE/MS2: Shannon Lucid (4)
- MS3: David Wolf+
- MS4: William McArthur+
- PS1: Martin Fettman+ (US) [backup Jay Buckey, Laurence Young]
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| 851.22 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/28/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 02 1993 18:01 | 34 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, July 28, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine securing
* Main engine heatshield and carrier panel installation
* External tank and solid rocket booster electrical mates in the
Vehicle Assembly Building
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Crew equipment interface test
* Orbiter Aft closeouts
WORK COMPLETED:
* Spacelab end-to-end tests
* Spacelab/tunnel integration verification tests
* Main engine installation and leak checks
* Install Spacelab tunnel
* External tank/solid rocket booster mechanical mates
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| 851.23 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 07/29/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 02 1993 18:02 | 28 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, July 29, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 Spacelab Life Sciences - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early/Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:30 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter aft closeouts
* Main engine securing, electrical interface and leak checks
* Main engine carrier panel installation
* External tank and solid rocket booster electrical mates in the
Vehicle Assembly Building
* Crew equipment interface test (Saturday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Main engine heatshield installation
* Orbiter electrical system redundancy tests
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| 851.24 | SLS-2 Payload Status Report | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 02 1993 18:06 | 47 |
| PAYLOAD STATUS REPORT
STS-58/SLS-2
July 28, 1993
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center
The primary payload for mission STS-58, the Spacelab Life Sciences 2
(SLS-2) laboratory module, passed a processing milestone today with the
completion of the Interface Verification Test (IVT) verifying electrical and
mechanical connections between the Spacelab module and the Spacelab tunnel.
The tunnel, which provides astronaut access between the orbiter mid-deck and
the module itself, contains lights and air-handling equipment for the Spacelab.
It was installed into Columbia's payload bay July 24-25.
Also successfully completed was an end-to-end test to verify
communications capability between the laboratory in Columbia's payload bay and
the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Columbia and SLS-2 are in Bay 2 of the
Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC. The laboratory module was installed into
Columbia on July 15 and these connections were also verified with an IVT on
July 20-22.
Next, limited-lifetime experiment lockers were installed within the SLS-2
laboratory on July 22-23. The most time-critical of the experiments will be
installed at the pad during launch countdown.
After the experiment lockers were installed in the OPF, the Spacelab
tunnel installation followed last weekend on July 24-25.
Columbia is targeted to move to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Aug. 15
and roll out to Launch Pad 39-B about a week later. Once at the pad, ground
support equipment used in experiment activation will be installed inside the
Spacelab module. The actual SLS-2 activation occurs at the beginning of the
STS-58 launch countdown.
The SLS-2 mission, like its predecessor, SLS-1, is dedicated to life
sciences research related to the future health, safety and productivity of
humans in space.
SLS-2 will re-fly many of the SLS-1 investigations to enable scientists to
draw more definitive and statistically significant conclusions. Fourteen
coordinated and complementary experiments will focus on the physiological
mechanisms involved in the adaptation to microgravity and readaptation to
normal Earth gravity. The STS-58/SLS-2 mission is targeted for launch the
second week of September.
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| 851.25 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/03/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Aug 04 1993 13:18 | 33 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, August 3, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:28 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Ca.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter aft and mid-body closeouts
* Spacelab external closeouts
* Crew module with Spacelab leakage tests
* Final payload bay cleaning
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Close payload bay doors
* Frequency response test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Crew equipment interface test
* Orbiter/tunnel 'C' hatch installation and inspections
* Freon coolant loop adjustments and checks
* Landing gear functional checks
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| 851.26 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/05/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 09 1993 17:13 | 32 |
| KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
8/5/93
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MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:28 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter forward and mid-body closeouts
* Spacelab external closeouts
* Crew module with Spacelab leakage tests
* Final payload bay cleaning
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Close payload bay doors
* Frequency response test
* Rollover from Orbiter Processing Facility to Vehicle Assembly
Building planned for early Thursday morning
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter aft compartment closouts
* Freon coolant loop adjustments and checks
* KU-band antenna stowed for flight
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| 851.27 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/06/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 09 1993 17:15 | 19 |
| SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, August 6, 1993
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
SPECIAL TOPICS: Columbia's OPF to VAB rollover
Preparations for the STS-58 launch continue on schedule. The Spacelab
SLS-2 module has been closed out for flight and the payload bay doors were
closed last night. The aft compartment and mid-body closeouts are complete.
The positive pressure check of the aft and the orbiter structural leak check
have been successfully performed. Weight and center of gravity determination
will begin on Monday. Rollover is targeted for 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, August
12.
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| 851.28 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/16/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Aug 18 1993 21:34 | 32 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, August 16, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: TBD
LAUNCH TIME: TBD
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter crew module operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbiter/external tank electrical mates
* Shuttle interface test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Hardmate orbiter to external tank
* Mechanical mates of orbiter to external tank
* Umbilical structural mates
* Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen mates
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| 851.29 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/18/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Aug 18 1993 21:35 | 33 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: TBD
LAUNCH TIME: TBD
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
NOTE: Operations in the VAB are on hold pending a decision to demate the
orbiter from the external tank. Demate and move to the horizontal position may
be required due to certain spacelab payload changeout considerations.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter crew module operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbiter/external tank electrical mates
* Shuttle interface test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Hardmate orbiter to external tank
* Mechanical mates of orbiter to external tank
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| 851.30 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/23/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Aug 24 1993 17:30 | 27 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, August 23, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: TBD
LAUNCH TIME: TBD
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Continuation of orbiter/external tank mating operations
* Shuttle Interface Test
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Shuttle Interface Test through today
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/External Tank umbilical closeouts
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| 851.31 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/24/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Aug 24 1993 17:31 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, August 24, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD/TIME: TBD CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter crew module cleaning operations
* Shuttle interface test
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical closeouts
* Leak checks of the main propulsion system
* Solid rocket booster hydraulic testing
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B to occur about 4-5 days after launch of
Discovery
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank electrical mates
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| 851.32 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/25/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Aug 26 1993 17:11 | 32 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, August 25, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD/TIME: TBD CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Solid rocket booster hydraulic operations
* Orbiter crew module cleaning operations
* Shuttle interface test
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical closeouts
* Leak checks of the main propulsion system
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B to occur about 4-5 days after launch of Discovery
* Flight control frequency response test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank electrical mates
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| 851.33 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/26/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Aug 26 1993 17:11 | 27 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, August 26, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter crew module cleaning operations
* Shuttle interface test
* Solid rocket booster hydraulic operations
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical closeouts
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Flight control frequency response test
WORK COMPLETED:
* Leak checks of the main propulsion system
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| 851.34 | Press Kit available | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Aug 30 1993 21:56 | 11 |
| The preliminary edition of the STS-58 press kit is available for your
perusal. No graphics, etc. yet. Still needs some cleanup (I get enthusiastic
about doing this about the time they get into orbit).
pragma::public:[nasa]sts-58.ps
15 pages
Enjoy..
- dave
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| 851.35 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 08/30/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Aug 31 1993 13:29 | 29 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, August 30, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter crew module cleaning operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Flight control frequency response test (Tuesday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank umbilical closeouts
* Shuttle interface test
* Solid rocket booster hydraulic operations
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| 851.36 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/01/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Sep 07 1993 17:02 | 16 |
| SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, September 1, 1993
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center
STS-58 / Columbia
In the Vehicle Assembly Building, a frequency response test of the
orbiter's flight controls was rescheduled from yesterday to today. The test
was postponed after a leak developed in a hydraulic fluid supply line on ground
support equipment.
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| 851.37 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/03/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Sep 07 1993 17:03 | 23 |
| KSC SHUTTLE STATUS 9-3-93
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Hydraulic circulation and sampling operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* X-ray auxiliary power units
WORK COMPLETED:
* Flight control frequency response test (Tuesday)
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| 851.38 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/07/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 13 1993 13:24 | 24 |
| KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 9/7/93
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Hydraulic circulation and sampling operations
* Hydraulic leak checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B following launch of Discovery
WORK COMPLETED:
* X-ray auxiliary power units
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| 851.39 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 13 1993 13:25 | 26 |
| KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 9/8/93
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Cavity purge checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B following launch of Discovery
WORK COMPLETED:
* External tank and solid rocket booster range safety battery
installation
* Hydraulic circulation and sampling operations
* Hydraulic leak checks
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| 851.40 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/13/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Sep 15 1993 15:44 | 26 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, September 13, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Mid October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Cavity purge checks
* External tank/solid rocket booster pre-rollout preparations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B (4 a.m. Thursday)
* Terminal countdown demonstration test (early next week)
* Launch readiness review (early next week)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank cavity purge
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| 851.41 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/14/94 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Sep 15 1993 15:44 | 28 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, September 14, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: VAB high bay 3 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Mid October CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
IN WORK TODAY:
* Pad 39-B validations
* Pre-rollout inspections
* Retract service platforms
* Preparations to remove auxiliary power units 1 and 3
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Rollout to pad 39-B (4 a.m. Thursday)
* Terminal countdown demonstration test (early next week)
* Launch readiness review (early next week)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter/external tank cavity purge
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| 851.42 | Pad turn-around time | LANDO::STONE | | Wed Sep 15 1993 15:53 | 5 |
| Quick question: Is this the fastest turnaround time of a pad (39-B) in
the shuttle program? Launch of Discovery on Sunday, Columbia brought
to the same pad four days later.
Thanks
JS
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| 851.43 | | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Sep 15 1993 16:42 | 9 |
| There was no big deal made of it at the post-launch conference for STS-51.
They were tossing out Wednesday as a possible date.
It may be luck that had an orbiter in the VAB ready to roll out (due to the
STS-51 delays), but the pad turnaround time of 4 days doesn't sound
extra special. While it certainly is a major event, the launch really
doesn't do much to the pad overall (may get singed a bit here and there).
- dave
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| 851.44 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/20/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Sep 21 1993 13:19 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, September 20, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 11 a.m. (approx.)
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
NOTE: Rollout to pad 39-B was concluded last Friday morning. The
vehicle was hard down on the pad at 11:47 a.m. The Rotating
Service Structure was moved around the vehicle at about 2
p.m. Friday
IN WORK TODAY:
* Terminal countdown demonstration test (Count began at 8:30
a.m. T-0 set for 11 a.m. Tuesday)
* Operations to remove and replace auxiliary power units numbers 1 and 3
* Main engine valve cycle checks
* Preparations for helium signature test
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Helium signature test
* Inertial measurement unit calibration tests
WORK COMPLETED:
* Pad validations
* Rollout to pad 39-B
* STS-58 crew arrival for terminal countdown demonstration test
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| 851.45 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/24/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 27 1993 20:40 | 36 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, September 24, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Fuel line connections on auxiliary power units 1 and 3
* Crew compartment cleaning
* Reaction control system regulator flow checks
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
* Pre-launch propellant loads
* Retract and extend rotating service structure
* Hot fire auxiliary power units
* Main engine flight readiness tests and aerosurface cyclings
* Orbiter midbody umbilical connections and leak checks
* SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Launch readiness review (Monday)
* Flight readiness review (Friday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Leak checks of replacement auxiliary power units 1 and 3
* Helium signature test
* Solid rocket booster thermal curtain installation
* Forward reaction control system pressurization
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| 851.46 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/27/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Sep 27 1993 20:41 | 36 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, September 27, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Fuel line connections on auxiliary power units 1 and 3
* Crew compartment cleaning
* Loading of pre-launch propellants
* Launch Readiness Review
WORK SCHEDULED THIS WEEK:
* Hot fire auxiliary power units
* Main engine flight readiness tests and aerosurface cyclings
* Orbiter midbody umbilical connections and leak checks
* SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Flight readiness review (Friday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Reaction Control System regulator flow checks
* Helium signature test
* Solid rocket booster thermal curtain installation
* Forward reaction control system pressurization
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| 851.47 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 09/30/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 04 1993 13:58 | 30 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, September 30, 1993
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine flight readiness tests and aerosurface cyclings
* Orbiter midbody umbilical connections and leak checks
WORK SCHEDULED:
* SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Flight readiness review (Friday)
* Pre-launch preparations
* Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts
WORK COMPLETED:
* Hot fire auxiliary power units
* Pre-launch propellant loads
* Retract and extend rotating service structure
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| 851.48 | Launch Advisory: October 14th... [Preliminary element set too!] | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 04 1993 14:00 | 47 |
| Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. October 1, 1993
Bruce Buckingham
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Shuttle managers today targeted October 14, 1993, for launch
of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the second Spacelab Life Sciences
(SLS-2) mission. The vehicle and its payloads were declared ready
for launch following today's Flight Readiness Review at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The 2-1/2 hour launch window on the
14th opens at 10:53 a.m., EDT.
The 14-day mission will be commanded by John Blaha and
piloted by Rick Searfoss. Rounding out the 7-member crew will be
Mission Specialists Rhea Seddon, Bill McArthur, David Wolf and
Shannon Lucid, and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman.
STS-58 represents the 58th Space Shuttle flight and the 15th
for Columbia.
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STS-58 Keplerian Orbital Elements for Oct 14 launch
The launch of STS-58 has been rescheduled now for October 14.
STS-58
1 00058U 93287.67747791 .00119475 00000-0 26040-3 0 50
2 00058 39.0114 124.6663 0007676 272.4217 87.5676 15.96123499 22
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 00058
Epoch time: 93287.67747791 = (14 OCT 93 16:15:34.09 UTC)
Element set: 005
Inclination: 39.0114 deg
RA of node: 124.6663 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: .0007676 Prelaunch Element set JSC-005
Arg of perigee: 272.4217 deg Launch: 14 OCT 93 14:53 UTC
Mean anomaly: 87.5676 deg
Mean motion: 15.96123499 rev/day Gil Carman, WA5NOM
Decay rate: 1.19475e-03 rev/day~2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 2
Checksum: 329
G.L.CARMAN
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| 851.49 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/04/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 06 1993 11:55 | 41 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, October 4, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m.
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Mating and leak check of Orbital Midbody Umbilical Unit
* Orbiter aft confidence test and start of aft closeouts
* Stowage of Spacelab hardware and minor payload equipment
* Launch countdown preparations to begin today
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbiter aft compartment closeouts to continue this week
* Continuation of launch countdown preparations
WORK COMPLETED:
* Flight Readiness Review conducted Friday, October 1
* Servicing of water spray boilers
* Successful Flight Readiness Test of engines and orbiter
conducted over the weekend
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| 851.50 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/05/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 06 1993 11:55 | 42 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Tuesday, October 5, 1993 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
_________________________________________________
| |
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2 |
|_________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m. EDT WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes
LANDING LOCATION/TIME: Edwards AFB, Calif., at 11:22 a.m. EDT
IN WORK TODAY:
* Main engine hydraulic closeouts
* Pre-launch preparations
* Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts
* Install extravehicular mobility units (spacesuits)
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Ordnance installation
* External tank purges
* Pressurize hypergolic fuel system
* Repressurize auxiliary power unit fuel/oxidizer systems
* Second phase of SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
WORK COMPLETED:
* First phase of SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Main engine flight readiness test
* Main engine hot gas leak checks
* Orbiter mid-body umbilical connections and leak checks
_______________________________________________________
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| 851.51 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/07/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 12:29 | 38 |
|
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Thursday, October 7, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m. EDT WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes LANDING TIME: 11:22 am EDT
LANDING DATE/LOCATION: Oct. 28, at Edwards AFB, Ca.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts
* External tank purges
* Pre-launch preparations
* Potable water servicing and filter checks
* Load orbiter's mass memory units
* Post ordnance installation operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Second phase of SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Mid-deck payload stowage
* Countdown begins at 12 a.m. Monday (midnight Sunday night)
* Crew arrival (1:30 p.m. Monday)
WORK COMPLETED:
* Repressurize auxiliary power unit fuel/oxidizer systems
* Pressurize hypergolic fuel system
* Final ordnance installation
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| 851.52 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 12:30 | 34 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, October 8, 1993
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham 407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53 a.m. EDT WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes LANDING TIME: 11:22 am EDT
LANDING DATE/LOCATION: Oct. 28/Edwards AFB, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter aft engine compartment closeouts
* Pre-launch preparations
* Potable water servicing and filter checks
* Mid-deck payload stowage
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
* Second phase of SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC Sunday)
* Countdown begins at 12 a.m. Monday (midnight Sunday night)
* Crew arrival (1:30 p.m. Monday)
* Fueling of external tank set to begin at 2:33 a.m. Thursday
* Launch set for 10:53 a.m. EDT Thursday
WORK COMPLETED:
* External tank purges
* Load orbiter's mass memory units
* Post ordnance installation operations
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| 851.53 | SLS-2 laboratory time-critical experiment stowage to begin Monday | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 12:32 | 33 |
| George H. Diller October 7, 1993
KSC Release No: 128-93
The final activities to prepare the Spacelab Life Sciences-2 laboratory
for flight start shortly before the countdown clock begins counting on Monday,
Oct. 11 at 12 a.m. EDT. A 75-member NASA/contractor team from Kennedy Space
Center, Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas is responsible for the
laboratory's last hours on the ground.
Work begins with the 12-hour activation of the Gas Analyzing Mass
Spectrometer (GAMS) which analyzes crew respiration, at 12 a.m. Monday. Extra
food bars for the rodents will be stowed at about 3 a.m. Monday.
On Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. the SLS-2 laboratory will be powered up.
Refrigerators that will hold samples and specimens collected during the 14-day
mission, will be turned on and temperatures checked. Also on Tuesday, the team
will activate and check the life support systems of the Research Animal Holding
Facility (RAHF), which will hold the rodents during the mission. The rodent's
initial supply of food has already been attached to the food trays and the
water supply topped off.
At 2 a.m. Wednesday the chemicals and materials for processing blood and
tissue samples will be transported from the Hangar L Life Sciences Facility on
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to the launch pad for storage inside the
laboratory refrigerators. At 4 a.m. Wednesday, four dozen rodents will be
loaded into the module for flight.
Should a 24-hour scrub turnaround become necessary, no SLS-2 activity is
required. After two launch attempts, however, launch would not be rescheduled
for 72-hours to allow replacement of the rodents and time-critical experiment
processing materials.
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| 851.54 | Rodent soup? :-) | ROGER::GAUDET | Because the Earth is 2/3 water | Mon Oct 11 1993 16:18 | 16 |
| Mr. Moderator, please move this if appropriate.
Reading the previous status report on this mission, a question popped into my
head with regard to non-human passengers onboard the shuttle: what sort of
things are done (if any) to prepare for the rigors of launch? First let me say
that I'm not an animal rights fanatic but I'm just curious about this. A vision
of what happens to my cat when he's riding in my truck and I'm forced to jam on
the brakes comes to mind when, at t-6 seconds this bunch (4 dozen, as I
understand) of rodents get rocked to one side at main engine ignition, and then
at t-0, SRB ignition and BLAM, cage pizza! :-) Well not really, but it must be
a rush for them. Is there some kind of container with "slots" or something
which helps keep them from getting slammed together?
Lunchtime thought-wandering.
...Roger...
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| 851.55 | | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 11 1993 18:47 | 9 |
| While the acceleration of a shuttle liftoff may be exhilerating, it isn't
all that nasty (shuttle's only see 3 G's max during liftoff, and that's
a bit into the flight profile -- not at SRB ignition).
Don't know how the rats feel about 1G vs. 3G's vs 8G's. I would think that
microgravity would have a more terrifying effect...
- dave
|
| 851.56 | It's gotta be a rush, though | ROGER::GAUDET | Because the Earth is 2/3 water | Tue Oct 12 1993 15:47 | 12 |
| Hmm, thanks Dave. I guess I was just lamenting about what it would be like to
be sealed in a container in some compartment, not knowing when things were going
to happen and then all of a sudden, rumble rumble, shake shake, POOF, I'm thrown
against the side of the container (along with 47 of my closest friends). Not
bad enough, then I'm turned upside-down (almost) as the shuttle completes the
roll maneuver. By this time I'm one confused rodent. But I think you're right,
microgravity must be the most confusing sensation.
But hey, for a ride on the shuttle, they can lock me in with the animals, at
least till we've reached orbit. :-)
...Roger...
|
| 851.57 | | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Tue Oct 12 1993 19:31 | 4 |
| With 3 Gees coming at you from behind, you probably don't notice the upside
down part too much...
Burns
|
| 851.58 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/11/93 (L-3) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 13 1993 11:56 | 111 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Monday, October 11, 1993 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
_________________________________________________
| |
| MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2 |
| LAUNCH MINUS 3 DAYS |
|_________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 10:53 a.m. - 1:23 p.m. EDT
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes LANDING TIME: 11:22 am EDT
LANDING DATE/LOCATION: Oct. 28/Edwards AFB, Calif.
NOTE: The countdown for Columbia's launch began today at 12 a.m.
at the T-43 hour mark. Forecasters indicate a 20 percent
probability of weather prohibiting launch with the primary
concerns being a chance of offshore showers. The seven crew
members for this mission arrived at KSC at about 1:30 p.m.
today. Crew members are: Commander John Blaha; Pilot
Richard Searfoss; Mission Specialists Rhea Seddon, William
McArthur, David Wolf and Shannon Lucid; and Payload
Specialist Martin Fettman.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Countdown began today at 12 a.m. at the T-43 hour mark
* Verification of Shuttle power on systems, data processing and
flight control systems
* Stowage of mid-deck and flight deck supplies and payloads
* Preparations for power reactant and storage distribution
system operations
* Orbiter and payload bay closeouts
* Retract payload ground handling mechanism
* Repressurize orbital maneuvering system with gaseous nitrogen
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Last phase of SLS-2 late stowage operations (MVAC)
* Load cryogenic reactants into onboard power reactant storage
and distribution system tanks (Tuesday)
* Retract rotating service structure (11 a.m. Wednesday)
* Fueling of external tank set to begin at 2:33 a.m. Thursday
WORK COMPLETED:
* Crew arrival (1:30 p.m. today)
* Close payload bay doors
* Crew compartment close-outs
* Launch countdown preparations
* Orbiter aft engine compartment close-outs
______________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF HOLDS AND HOLD TIMES FOR STS-58 |
|______________________________________________|
T-TIME ------- LENGTH OF HOLD ---- HOLD BEGINS ---- HOLD ENDS
T-27 hours - 8 hours ----------- 4 pm Mon.----------- 12 am Tues.
T-19 hours - 8 hours ----------- 8 am Tues.----------- 4 pm Tues.
T-11 hours - 20 hrs., 33 mins. - 12 am Wed.--------- 8:33 pm Wed.
T-6 hours -- 1 hour ------------ 1:33 am Thurs.--- 2:33 am Thurs.
T-3 hours -- 2 hours ----------- 5:33 am Thurs.--- 7:33 am Thurs.
T-20 min. -- 10 min. ---------- 10:13 am Thurs.-- 10:23 am Thurs.
T-9 min. --- 10 min. ---------- 10:34 am Thurs.-- 10:44 am Thurs.
___________________________
| |
| CREW FOR MISSION STS-51 |
|___________________________|
Commander (CDR): John Blaha
Pilot (PLT): Richard Searfoss
Mission Specialist (MS1): Rhea Seddon
Mission Specialist (MS2): Bill McArthur
Mission Specialist (MS3): David Wolf
Mission Specialist (MS4): Shannon Lucid
Payload Specialist (PS): Martin Fettman
________________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF STS-58 LAUNCH DAY CREW ACTIVITIES |
|________________________________________________|
Thursday, October 14, 1993
5:33 a.m. Wake up (PS)
5:43 a.m. Wake up (MS1)
5:58 a.m. Wake up (CDR, PLT, MS2,3,4)
6:13 a.m. Breakfast (MS4, PS)
6:28 a.m. Breakfast (CDR, PLT, MS1,2,3)
6:33 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS4, PS)
6:58 a.m. Weather briefing (CDR, PLT, MS2)
6:58 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS1,3)
7:08 a.m. Don flight equipment (CDR, PLT, MS2)
7:38 a.m. Depart for launch pad 39-B
8:08 a.m. Arrive at white room and begin ingress
9:23 a.m. Close crew hatch
10:53 a.m. Launch
|
| 851.59 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/12/93 (L-2) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 13 1993 11:57 | 105 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Tuesday, October 12, 1993 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
_________________________________________________
| |
| MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2 |
| LAUNCH MINUS 2 DAYS |
|_________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 10:53 am - 1:23 pm EDT
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes LANDING TIME: 11:22 am EDT
LANDING DATE/LOCATION: Oct. 28/Edwards AFB, Calif.
The countdown for Columbia's launch continues without problem today. The
pad will be closed for most of this morning for the loading of the onboard
cryogenic tanks with the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen reactants. These
reactants provide electricity to the orbiter while in space and drinking water
for the crew. The pad was closed to all personnel at about 12 a.m. and
cryogenic flow began about 2 a.m. The process will last for about 9 hours.
Following this operation the orbiter mid-body um- bilical unit will be demated,
orbiter communications activation will start and final vehicle and facility
closeouts will begin.
Tomorrow, preparations will be made to retract the rotating service
structure to launch position at about 11 a.m. Tanking is scheduled to begin at
about 2:33 a.m. Thursday.
Final late stowage of experiments into the Spacelab is ex- pected to begin
later today following cryogenic operations. The 48 rodents slated to fly on
Columbia will be loaded into the Spacelab early tomorrow morning.
Forecasters indicate a 10 percent probability of weather prohibiting
launch with the primary concerns being possible off- shore showers. The winds
at the pad are expected to be from the east at 8 knots; temperature 78 degrees
F; visibility 7 miles; and clouds scattered at 2,500 and 25,000 feet. The
24-hour-delay forecast reveals a similar forecast and likewise lists a 10 per-
cent chance of violation.
The seven-member astronaut crew for this mission arrived at KSC's Shuttle
Landing Facility yesterday at about 1:30 p.m. Today they will be involved with
checking out their mission plans and fit checks of their equipment. They are
scheduled for some free time this afternoon and will be ready for sleep at
about 9:30 p.m. They will be awakened tomorrow at about 9 a.m.
______________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF HOLDS AND HOLD TIMES FOR STS-58 |
|______________________________________________|
T-TIME ------- LENGTH OF HOLD ---- HOLD BEGINS ---- HOLD ENDS
T-27 hours - 8 hours ----------- 4 pm Mon.----------- 12 am Tues.
T-19 hours - 8 hours ----------- 8 am Tues.----------- 4 pm Tues.
T-11 hours - 20 hrs.,33 mins. - 12 am Wed.---------- 8:33 pm Wed.
T-6 hours -- 1 hour ------------ 1:33 am Thurs.--- 2:33 am Thurs.
T-3 hours -- 2 hours ----------- 5:33 am Thurs.--- 7:33 am Thurs.
T-20 min. -- 10 min. ---------- 10:13 am Thurs.-- 10:23 am Thurs.
T-9 min. --- 10 min. ---------- 10:34 am Thurs.-- 10:44 am Thurs.
___________________________
| |
| CREW FOR MISSION STS-58 |
|___________________________|
Commander (CDR): John Blaha
Pilot (PLT): Richard Searfoss
Mission Specialist (MS1): Rhea Seddon
Mission Specialist (MS2): Bill McArthur
Mission Specialist (MS3): David Wolf
Mission Specialist (MS4): Shannon Lucid
Payload Specialist (PS): Martin Fettman
________________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF STS-58 LAUNCH DAY CREW ACTIVITIES |
|________________________________________________|
Thursday, October 14, 1993
5:33 a.m. Wake up (PS)
5:43 a.m. Wake up (MS1)
5:58 a.m. Wake up (CDR, PLT, MS2,3,4)
6:13 a.m. Breakfast (MS4, PS)
6:28 a.m. Breakfast (CDR, PLT, MS1,2,3)
6:33 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS4, PS)
6:58 a.m. Weather briefing (CDR, PLT, MS2)
6:58 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS1,3)
7:08 a.m. Don flight equipment (CDR, PLT, MS2)
7:38 a.m. Depart for launch pad 39-B
8:08 a.m. Arrive at white room and begin ingress
9:23 a.m. Close crew hatch
10:53 a.m. Launch
|
| 851.60 | NASA Select Schedule available | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 13 1993 11:59 | 4 |
| pragma::public:[nasa]sts-58.nasa_select
- dave
|
| 851.61 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/13/93 (L-1) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 14 1993 11:58 | 104 |
| _______________________________________________________________
| |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT |
| Wednesday, October 13, 1993 |
|_______________________________________________________________|
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
_________________________________________________
| |
| MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2 |
| LAUNCH MINUS 1 DAY |
|_________________________________________________|
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 14 CREW SIZE: 7
LAUNCH WINDOW: 10:53 am - 1:23 pm EDT
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes LANDING TIME: 11:22 am EDT
LANDING DATE/LOCATION: Oct. 28/Edwards AFB, Calif.
The countdown for Columbia's launch continues without problem today.
Yesterday, work to load cryogenic fuels into the orbiter storage tanks and the
extra extended duration orbiter tanks was completed on time and the pad was
reopened for regularly scheduled operations. Following fueling operations the
orbiter mid-body umbilical unit was demated from the vehicle. Final late
stowage of experiments into the Spacelab will continue throughout today. Also,
orbiter communications activation and final vehicle and facility closeouts are
in work today.
This morning, preparations were made to retract the rotating service
structure to launch position. First motion occurred at about 11 a.m.
At about 2:33 a.m. tomorrow, operations will begin to load the external
tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
Operations toward that milestone are proceeding without problem.
Forecasters indicate a 10 percent probability of weather prohibiting
launch tomorrow. The winds at pad 39-B are expected to be from the east at 10
to 14 knots; temperature 78 degrees F; visibility 7 miles; and clouds scattered
at 3,000, 8,000 and 25,000 feet. The 24-hour delay forecast reveals an
increasing threat of high upper level winds and additional cloud coverage at
KSC during the launch window and lists a 30 percent chance of violation.
Today, the seven-member astronaut crew for this mission have been given a
briefing on tomorrow's weather outlook and completed their review of launch day
activities and mission plans. Commander John Blaha, pilot Richard Searfoss,
and mission specialist Bill McArthur flew in the Shuttle Training Aircraft
earlier today. The crew will be granted several hours of free time this
afternoon and be ready for sleep at about 9:30 p.m. They will be awakened
tomorrow at various times ranging from 5:33 to 5:58 a.m.
______________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF HOLDS AND HOLD TIMES FOR STS-58 |
|______________________________________________|
T-TIME ----- LENGTH OF HOLD ---- HOLD BEGINS ------- HOLD ENDS
T-27 hours - 8 hours ----------- 4 pm Mon.----------- 12 am Tues.
T-19 hours - 8 hours ----------- 8 am Tues.----------- 4 pm Tues.
T-11 hours - 20 hrs.,33 mins. -- 12 am Wed.--------- 8:33 pm Wed.
T-6 hours -- 1 hour ------------ 1:33 am Thurs.--- 2:33 am Thurs.
T-3 hours -- 2 hours ----------- 5:33 am Thurs.--- 7:33 am Thurs.
T-20 min. -- 10 min. ----------- 10:13 am Thurs.- 10:23 am Thurs.
T-9 min. --- 10 min. ----------- 10:34 am Thurs.- 10:44 am Thurs.
___________________________
| |
| CREW FOR MISSION STS-58 |
|___________________________|
Commander (CDR): John Blaha
Pilot (PLT): Richard Searfoss
Mission Specialist (MS1): Rhea Seddon
Mission Specialist (MS2): Bill McArthur
Mission Specialist (MS3): David Wolf
Mission Specialist (MS4): Shannon Lucid
Payload Specialist (PS): Martin Fettman
________________________________________________
| |
| SUMMARY OF STS-58 LAUNCH DAY CREW ACTIVITIES |
|________________________________________________|
Thursday, October 14, 1993
5:33 a.m. Wake up (PS)
5:43 a.m. Wake up (MS1)
5:58 a.m. Wake up (CDR, PLT, MS2,3,4)
6:13 a.m. Breakfast (MS4, PS)
6:28 a.m. Breakfast (CDR, PLT, MS1,2,3)
6:33 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS4, PS)
6:58 a.m. Weather briefing (CDR, PLT, MS2)
6:58 a.m. Don flight equipment (MS1,3)
7:08 a.m. Don flight equipment (CDR, PLT, MS2)
7:38 a.m. Depart for launch pad 39-B
8:08 a.m. Arrive at white room and begin ingress
9:23 a.m. Close crew hatch
10:53 a.m. Launch
|
| 851.62 | On hold for weather | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:44 | 14 |
|
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Thick clouds from a fast-moving low
pressure system forced NASA to stop the countdown for Thursday's planned
liftoff of the space shuttle Columbia and seven astronauts on a medical
research flight.
``We'll continue to look at the weather for the next half-hour or so,
but we're not real optimistic (about a launch today),'' Kennedy Space
Center launch director Robert Sieck told the launch team.
Strapped inside Columbia's crew cabin are commander John Blaha, co-
pilot Richard Searfoss, flight engineer William McArthur, payload
commander Rhea Seddon, David Wolf, Shannon Lucid, and payload specialist
Martin Fettman.
The astronauts are to spend 14 days in orbit conducting life sciences
experiments.
|
| 851.65 | launch scrubbed at t-31 | ONE900::HUGHES | Samurai Couch Potato | Thu Oct 14 1993 15:59 | 5 |
| 851.66 | | ONE900::HUGHES | Samurai Couch Potato | Fri Oct 15 1993 14:10 | 3 |
| Scrubbed again today. They plan to try again on Monday.
gary
|
| 851.67 | She's up..... Launch Statement (10/18/93) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 18 1993 17:22 | 26 |
| VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: On orbit -- Flight Day 1 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: October 18, 1993
LAUNCH TIME: 10:53:10.066 am EDT
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes
LANDING DATE/TIME/LOCATION: Nov. 1/11:22 am EDT/Edwards AFB, Ca.
The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched today on mission STS-58. Launch
occurred at 10:53:10 a.m., just ten seconds inside the scheduled liftoff
window. The minimal delay was due to a stray U.S. Navy aircraft in the range
safety restricted zone. Mission managers are planning for a nominal 14 day, 29
minute mission with a scheduled landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
No serious technical issues were worked during the countdown today. As a point
of interest, this was the 75th space launch from complex 39 pads A and B.
The solid rocket boosters appear to have splashed down in the Atlantic
without any problems. At this time parachute recovery operations are in work.
Columbia's STS- 58 mission is the second spacelab flight dedicated to
life science research. Crew members will conduct a series of experiments to
acquire more knowledge on how the human body adapts to the microgravity
environment of space.
With a landing at the Edwards Air Force Base on Nov. 1, this will be the
longest Space Shuttle mission to date.
|
| 851.68 | MCC Status Report #1; SLS Status Report #1 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Oct 19 1993 12:07 | 108 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 STATUS REPORT #1
Monday, October 18, 1993, 5 p.m. CST
Columbia's Spacelab Life Sciences 2 mission is in operation following launch
this morning at 9:53 central.
Delayed only seconds for an aircraft to move out of the launch zone, the STS-
58 mission began with a smooth ascent to a 155 nautical mile orbit. Once in
orbit, Columbia's systems were verified in good working order and the payload
bay doors were opened about an hour and a half later.
After all orbiter systems were checked out and the flight deck and middeck
configured for the flight, the crew activated the 23-foot-long Spacelab module
for the experimentation work that will be conducted for the next 14 days.
The crew will work a single shift throughout the flight and is scheduled to go
to bed this evening just before 9 p.m. and wake up Tuesday morning a little
before five.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #1
6:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 18, 1993
0/08:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The second Spacelab mission dedicated to life sciences got under
way as Columbia roared into space at 9:53 a.m. central. More than a
dozen experiments aboard the Spacelab Life Sciences-2 module will
study how the body adapts to weightlessness. Columbia's
seven-member astronaut crew will be the operators as well as
subjects of tests focusing on the body fluids, heart and
circulatory system, sense of balance, bones and muscles. The
results will add to studies from Spacelab Life Sciences-1 and other
past flights that may be used to help counteract the effects of
weightlessness on astronauts during long-term space flights and
allow them to readapt to Earth's gravity. The results may also
assist those studying a number of cardiovascular, hematological and
bone disorders affecting people on Earth.
The crew got a head start on the Spacelab experiments, making some
measurements in the orbiter middeck within an hour after launch.
Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty
Fettman took blood samples from one another and Mission Specialist
Dave Wolf and recorded their blood pressure, gathering information
on their early adaptation to weightlessness. The test looks at the
headward fluid shift and fluid loss that occurs in orbit and its
relationship to the cardiovascular system. Both Lucid and Fettman
were wearing catheters, inserted prior to launch in their arms to a
point near their hearts, to provide direct measurements of central
venous pressure during the transition from launch to orbit.
Lucid's catheter was removed this afternoon. Fettman's will remain
in place for another day.
Tests from the 1991 Spacelab Life Sciences 1 flight showed that
crew members' blood pressures rose while they were on the launch
pad, increased further during launch, then dropped within 60
seconds once they were in space. This seemed to refute earlier
theories that a rise in blood pressure results from fluid shifts to
the upper part of the body due to weightlessness. As is true with
many SLS-2 experiments, repeating tests on several different
individuals and missions will add to the statistical accuracy of
conclusions.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon activated the Spacelab systems about
two hours into the flight. Seddon and Wolf entered the lab module
at about 1:40 p.m. and finished powering up the lab computer
terminals and experiment hardware just before the crew's lunch
break.
After lunch, the crew began working in the Spacelab on two
experiments, one examining at the heart and circulatory system and
another studying reflexes and the sense of balance. Seddon took
ultrasound readings of Lucid's heart with a state-of-the-art
echocardiograph imaging system. The sound strikes the various
heart structures and is reflected back to a receiver, which
translates the reflections to an image on a video screen.
Echocardiographs will be made of various crew members throughout
the mission.
Two other experiments concentrated on how the body's motion-sensing
organ in the inner ear, or otolith, reacts to the loss of
gravity. Wolf, wearing a cap fitted with motion sensors and using
a pocket tape recorder, noted the time of any space motion sickness
symptoms so post-flight, investigators can study the relationship
between provocative head movements and periods of discomfort.
Later, Seddon fitted Wolf with a bungee cord apparatus designed to
mimic the sensation of falling. Electrodes measured the muscles in
Wolf's lower legs as he was "dropped" to see if his sense of
balance sends a reflex to tense and prepare for landing as it would
on Earth. Blaha and Fettman also will be subjects of the
experiment as the crew's day winds down.
Fettman and Pilot Rick Searfoss checked on the 48 laboratory rats
in the animal holding facility, and reported that their Spacelab
companions were faring well after launch.
The crew will end their first day of operations eleven hours after
launch, going to sleep at 8:53 p.m. They will get a wake-up call
at 4:53 a.m. Tuesday.
|
| 851.69 | Orbital elements available? | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | I Really Haven't Got The Time | Tue Oct 19 1993 20:09 | 3 |
| Are the refined orbital elements available?
Bob
|
| 851.70 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 10/19/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 20 1993 12:23 | 27 |
| _______________________________________________________________
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Tuesday, October 19, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
FLIGHT DAY - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Orbit INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
LAUNCH DATE/TIME: October 18 / 10:53 a.m. EDT
EXPECTED MISSION DURATION: 14 days/29 minutes
EXPECTED LANDING DATE/TIME: November 1 / 10:22 am EST
EXPECTED LANDING LOCATION: Edwards AFB, Calif.
CREW: Commander John Blaha; Pilot Richard Searfoss; Mission
Specialists Rhea Seddon, Bill McArthur, David Wolf, Shannon
Lucid; and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman
NOTE: Minimal damage has been reported on pad 39-B following
yesterday's successful launch. The solid rocket boosters
were returned to Port Canaveral earlier this morning.
|
| 851.71 | MCC Status Report #2; SLS-2 Status Reports #2,3 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 20 1993 12:24 | 175 |
| SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #2
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 19, 1993
0/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Cardiovascular and metabolic experiments to measure how the human body
adapts to weightlessness are scheduled for the Spacelab Life Science-2 crew's
first full day of medical research.
The second Spacelab mission dedicated to life sciences began its 14-day
flight Monday morning. The first several hours of science collection was
completed successfully and overnight planning efforts went smoothly due to the
success of the first day in orbit. Today's activities will follow the nominal
timeline.
This morning, Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and astronauts David Wolf,
Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman collected blood, urine and
saliva samples before eating breakfast. They then ingested and injected
several tracers that will track the adaptive changes of the crew's regulatory,
hematological and musculoskeletal systems.
The first of the four experiments in this morning's combined metabolic
session is sponsored by Dr. Carolyn Leach of the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas, and focuses on how the body's endocrine and renal (kidney)
systems adapt to the headward fluid shift occurring during the first 24 hours
of spaceflight. This morning's tracers will measure total body water (Oxygen
18), plasma being excreted through the kidneys (Para-aminohippurate and
Inutest), amount of plasma in the blood (Iodine 125) and extra cellular fluids
(Sulfur 35). Additional measurements will be taken later in the flight.
An additional tracer (15N-glycine) was used this morning for an experiment
by Dr. T. Peter Stein of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
to look at changes in how the body uses protein. Astronauts experience muscle
atrophy during their time in space, especially in the "anti-gravity" muscles
used to keep their bodies upright on Earth. Dr. Stein's experiment is designed
to determine the mechanisms that result in this physiological change.
Blood samples taken before the crew ate breakfast also will support a bone
investigation by Dr. C. D. Arnaud of the University of California at San
Franciso and a blood investigation by Dr. Clarence Alfrey of Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston. Dr. Arnaud hopes his SLS-2 experiment will help fine tune
preliminary findings from SLS-1 that indicate bone tissue is destroying itself
faster than it is created in space. Dr. Alfrey is studying the effects of
microgravity on the production and disappearance of red blood cells.
Also continued measurements of blood pressure in the veins near the heart
will be taken today on Fettman to support a cardiovascular investigation by Dr.
C. Gunnar Blomqvist of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in
Dallas. Other cardiovascular tests will be preformed by crew members throughout
the day. Echocardiograph measurements will be taken on Lucid, Wolf and Fettman
during various phases of exercise. The activity supports Blomqvist's
experiment and the investigation by Dr. Leon Farhi of State University of New
York in Buffalo.
The neuroscience investigations also will continue this afternoon with the
first data takes using the rotating dome. For the experiment the subject
places their head inside a dome covered with colored dots. As the dome rotates
the subject senses that they are rotating in the opposite direction.
Measurements are taken to determine the extent to which the subject's reactions
have changed from before the mission. The subjects for today's dome activities
are Sedden, Wolf and Fettman. The principal investigator is Dr. Larry Young of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Overnight, payload controllers monitored the temperature in one of the
Research Animal Holding Facilities which was slightly above normal. The
temperature cooled overnight and controllers will continue monitoring the
system during the day. All other Spacelab systems continue to function as
expected.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 STATUS REPORT #2
Tuesday, October 19, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
The seven-member crew of Columbia's STS-58 mission spent their first full day
in orbit conducting experiments in support of the second Spacelab Life Sciences
mission.
If all goes as planned, Columbia's fifteenth flight will become the longest in
Shuttle Program history, eclipsing the orbiter's STS-50 mission last year.
The spacecraft has performed very well thus far in the flight with no
significant problems that would impact the mission duration or the science work
in the Spacelab module.
Only one minor issue came up today associated with a circuit breaker that
tripped, cutting off power temporarily to one of the rodent cages in the
module. Flight controllers in Houston reported it was not caused by a short in
the electrical system and the breaker was reset, restoring power to the cage.
No other issues have surfaced as Columbia circles the Earth every 90 minutes at
an altitude of 155 nautical miles.
The crew is scheduled to go to bed this evening just before 9 p.m. and wake up
Wednesday morning a little before five.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #3
6:45 p.m. CDT, Oct. 19, 1993
1/8:52 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
On the second day aboard an orbiting lab, the Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew
began a steady pace of experiments to study how humans adapt to weightlessness.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon collected blood, urine and saliva samples from
her crewmates throughout the day. Several of her crewmates took a number of
biological tracers early today, a method of tracking certain substances, such
as water, calcium, iron and others, as they are incorporated by the body.
Tracking these tracers gives scientists clues to changes in the blood, bones
and other systems as they adapt to weightlessness.
Astronaut Dave Wolf used an exercise bicycle to determine how his heart and
lungs perform in and adapt to weightlessness, both at rest and during various
levels of exercise. Wolf breathed into a gas analyzer, which measures the
composition of inhaled and exhaled air. Such measurements will be taken from
other subjects late today and several times during the flight.
A later experiment investigated the effect of weightlessness on astronauts'
sense of orientation. On Earth, our sense of orientation is due in part to the
detection of gravity by motion-sensing organs of the inner ear, called
otoliths. However, visual cues are also important. When a stationary person
sees motion, they may feel a sense of motion momentarily. An example of this
is when a car in the next lane starts to move while your car is sitting still.
But, on Earth, the inner ear quickly overrules that feeling and tells you that
you are not moving.
In weightlessness, the eyes compensate for the inner ear. In this experiment,
provided by Alternate Payload Specialist Larry Young and his team from MIT, the
astronaut stares into a dome covered with randomly spaced colored dots. Seddon
was the first subject of the experiment. As the dome begins to rotate, her
eyes tell her she is rotating. The experiment measures her perception of how
quickly she is rotating and what kind of eye and neck movements occur in
response to her perception. Scientists theorize that if the eyes become more
dominant in space, the astronaut's sense of rotation should get stronger and
stronger over the course of the flight. The test will be repeated throughout
the mission.
Veterinarian and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman checked on the rats in the
Research Animal Holding Facility, reporting that all 48 animals are doing well.
Spacelab controllers have been watching the temperatures inside the 24 cages on
one of the two facilities closely due to problems experienced with that
facility's cooling system late yesterday. The cooling system for the cages was
turned off during the first night in orbit and room temperature air from the
Spacelab kept the cages well within acceptable limits.
The cooling system was turned back on today and is functioning. To assist with
keeping temperatures constant, cooling provided by the Spacelab to the cage
facility has been increased. This, coupled with the cage cooling system's
performance, is expected to maintain the temperature at about 80 degrees
Fahrenheit. This range has no adverse effect on the animals' health.
This afternoon, power was lost for about 15 minutes to one of the two animal
holding facilities due to a circuit breaker. The crew reset the circuit
breaker and the facility is operating well. The animals experienced no
problems.
A catheter Fettman had worn since before launch to measure central venous
pressure near his heart was removed at about 3:30 p.m. The measurements will
give scientists a record of the immediate changes in his central venous
pressure during launch as well as his adaptation to weightlessness during the
first 30 hours of flight.
The crew will begin their sleep period at 9 p.m. central. Wednesday activities
will begin with a 4:53 a.m. wake-up call.
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| 851.72 | STS-58 element set GSFC-006 (orbit 17) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 20 1993 12:25 | 27 |
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STS-58
1 22869U 93 65 A 93292.61631323 0.00042051 00000-0 98794-4 0 62
2 22869 39.0187 122.4155 0005879 299.8949 60.1276 15.95767329 170
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 22869
Epoch time: 93292.61631323 (19 OCT 93 14:47:29.46 UTC)
Element set: GSFC-006
Inclination: 39.0187 deg
RA of node: 122.4155 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: 0.0005879 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 299.8949 deg
Mean anomaly: 60.1276 deg
Mean motion: 15.95767329 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6664.3094 Km
Decay rate: 0.42E-03 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 289.84 Km
Epoch rev: 17 Perigee Alt: 282.00 Km
NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 006.
The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
R.A. Parise, Goddard Space Flight Center
G.L.CARMAN
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| 851.73 | Thanks Dave :-) | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | I Really Haven't Got The Time | Wed Oct 20 1993 15:21 | 1 |
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| 851.74 | MCC Status Reports #3,4; SLS-2 Status Reports #4,5 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 21 1993 11:48 | 243 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #3
Wednesday, October 20, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
The seven-member crew of Columbia was awakened to the sounds of the theme from
the movie "2001," at 4:53 a.m. CDT as it began its third day of the Spacelab
Life Sciences 2 mission.
Overnight, the spacecraft continued to perform well, with flight controllers in
Houston primarily monitoring the on-board systems and planning the coming day's
activities.
The orbiter crew -- Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and Mission
Specialist Bill McArthur -- will participate in the Flight Day 3 biomedical
experiments, which concentrate on the study of human physiology and how it
reacts to the absence of gravity.
McArthur and Blaha will begin using the Lower Body Negative Pressure device,
which is being tested as a countermeasure for the detrimental effects of
microgravity.
All three flight crew members will collect urine and saliva samples and keep
logs of their exercise and food and fluid intake as part of the Energy
Utilization detailed supplementary objective. DSO 612 looks at the nutritial
and energy requirements of crew members on long-duration space flights and the
relationship between fluid and food consumption and changes in body mass and
body composition.
Blaha also will perform a pitch drag test with the Orbital Acceleration
Research Experiment, which is designed to accurately measure low-level
aerodynamic acceleration of the orbiter in the upper atmosphere.
Crew members also are scheduled to attempt Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
contacts with schools in the U.S. and France.
Columbia is circling the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of 155 nautical
miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #4
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 20, 1993
1/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Experiments aimed at understanding bone tissue loss and the effects of
microgravity on sensory perception are scheduled for the third day of the
second Spacelab Life Sciences mission.
Overnight replanning activities went smoothly after yesterday's busy day.
To counter a minor hardware problem in maintaining consistent temperatures in
the Research Animal Holding Facilities (RAHF), temperatures were raised to 28
degrees Celsius (82 degrees Farenheit) overnight. With the new set point, the
RAHF systems worked nominally throughout the crew's sleep period. Today,
payload controllers will be analyzing the overnight data to determine if any
additional actions are necessary.
Metabolic studies continue this morning with additional blood and urine
samples taken from Payload Commander Rhea Sedden, Mission Specialists Shannon
Lucid and David Wolf and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman.
One musculoskeletal experiment sponsored by Dr. C.D. Arnaud of the
University of California at San Francisco began before breakfast when the four
crew members ingested the tracer Calcium 48. About 45 minutes later, blood and
urine samples were taken before a second tracer Calcium 46 was injected.
Additional blood and urine samples will be collected at various time increments
throughout the day and later in the mission.
Based on preliminary results from SLS-1, Dr. Arnaud believes the increased
level in bone breakdown is not compensated for by additional bone creation.
The two calcium isotopes will be used to track the mechanisms governing two
natural processes: Calcium 48 tracks how calcium is absorbed and Calcium 46
measures how much bone is destroyed or resorbed. Scientists think the human
body reacts in space in a similar manner as patients' bodies afflicted with
osteoporosis. Since bone mineral loss takes place more rapid in space than the
normal aging process on Earth, scientists can study the mechanisms governing
this abnormal loss of calcium. Osteoporosis, which affects over 2 1/2 million
elderly, causes bones to get smaller, brittle and prone to fracture from normal
activity.
Two neurovestibular experiments investigating space motion sickness and
perception changes will be conducted today. Lucid and Fettman will wear a
headset, called an Accelerometer Recording Unit, designed to continually record
head movements throughout the day. This afternoon, crew members will perform
specific movements during a Head Movement Comparison Test. During periods of
discomfort, the crewmember will record the sensations on a pocket tape
recorder. These verbal recordings will be correlated to the head movements
upon Columbia's return to determine the relationship between head action and
space motion sickness.
For the second neurovestibular experiment, Wolf, Lucid and Fettman will
look at various targets on a screen to help quantify the changes in their
perception of their body positions. First with their eyes open, the subject
will point to a specified position on the screen with a light pointer. Then,
with eyes closed, they will attempt to repeat the movement. Video recordings
are made to determine awareness of limb positions, posture and target
locations. Alternate Payload Specialist Dr. Laurence Young of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge is the Principal Investigator for both
experiments.
As part of the Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Program to help develop
countermeasures for the physiological adverse effects of weightlessness,
Commander John Blaha and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will spend time in
the lower body negative pressure unit. A sleeping bag-type device encases the
lower body sealing at the waist creating a vacuum. Negative pressure fills the
bag drawing body fluids that have moved up toward the head and torso back to
the legs mimicing gravity-induced fluid distribution on Earth.
Fettman will again remove the waste collection trays from the two Research
Animal Holding Facilities as part of the
musculoskeletal experiment conducted by Dr. Emily Holton of Ames
Research Center in Moffett Field, California. After Columbia
lands, scientists will examine the dried urine and feces for
Calcium 48 to determine bone resorption.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #5
5:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 20, 1993
2/7:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences-2 mission is less than three days old, but at
least one scientist is already reporting some correlations with his experiment
on the first Spacelab Life Sciences mission in 1991.
Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero Gravity Principal Investigator Dr. C.
Gunnar Blomqvist reported today that heart and central venous pressure
measurements taken on Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist
Marty Fettman in the first hours of flight confirmed surprising findings from
SLS-1. They show a slightly lower central venous pressure than predicted by
Earth-based studies, coupled with a slightly larger volume in the heart's left
ventricle than would be expected with the lower pressure. The findings shed
new light on the basic physiology of the heart in microgravity.
The crew made the most of their third day in orbit, completing all
scheduled activities and fitting in a few bonus experiments.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and Mission Specialist Dave Wolf found time
for runs of the unscheduled Pulmonary Function in Weightlessness experiment.
The test uses the same rebreathing assembly and gas analyzer used for the
cardiovascular deconditioning experiment. Inflight results of the pulmonary
experiment will be compared with pre- and post-flight data to help determine
the effects of zero gravity on lung function.
The crew tested the ability to judge their position in one of the
mission's five vestibular experiments. They pointed to a specified target on a
wall grid with a light pen, first with their eyes open and then with them
closed. Scientists hope to determine how the senses which help us identify the
position of our body on Earth are adversely affected by the absence of gravity.
"The difference between the data on Earth and the data in space is
absolutely amazing," Commander John Blaha told ground-based scientists as
Fettman took the first turn at the position awareness experiment. In addition
to scheduled runs with Fettman, Lucid and Wolf, there was time for bonus
sessions with Blaha and Seddon as the subjects. A repeat of the experiment on
the ninth flight day will evaluate whether the crews' awareness of position
changes as they further adapt to weightlessness.
Another vestibular experiment this afternoon may help determine whether
space sickness is indeed a form of motion sickness. Periodically during the
mission, various crew members are wearing a skull cap fitted with motion
sensors, called an acceleration recording unit, to track correlations between
random
head movements and symptoms of space sickness. This afternoon,
Wolf, Seddon and Fettman went through a closely choreographed
series of movements to the beat of a metronome -- moving the knee
to the head, pitching the head up and down and right to left -- to
evaluate how specific head movements affect the general comfort of
the crew.
Seddon completed the mission's only collection of samples from crew
members for the Mineral Loss During Spaceflight experiment. It studies the
mechanisms which cause changes to the human body's calcium balance in
weightlessness. Principal Investigator Dr. Claude D. Arnaud is Director of the
Program in Osteoporosis and Bone Biology at the University of California, San
Francisco. In addition to using his findings to help counteract bone loss in
astronauts, Arnaud hopes to apply them to the search for treatments for
osteoperosis, the bone thinning which often afflicts the elderly.
Mission Specialist Bill McArthur and Commander Blaha each spent about an
hour with the lower halves of their bodies encased in the Lower Body Negative
Pressure bag. The experiment, which has flown on several previous Shuttle
flights, slightly reduces pressure around the legs to pull fluids back to the
lower body. Because fluids which shift to the head and torso in weightlessness
rush back to the lower body during landing, astronauts may have difficulty
standing upright without feeling dizzy. Today's short sessions measured and
tracked changes in the cardiovascular system. The day before landing both
McArthur and Blaha will spend four hours "soaking" in the bag to prepare them
for reentry into gravity.
Late this afternoon, Wolf is scheduled to check out the American Flight
Echocardiograph unit, a portable heart imager which serves as a backup to the
cardiac echo ultrasound imaging system mounted in a Spacelab rack.
Crew sleep time is again scheduled for 8:53 p.m. The
astronauts will be awakened at 4:53 a.m. Consistent periods of
work and rest help the crew to maintain their normal body rhythms.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 STATUS #4
Wednesday, October 20, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
While the focus of Columbia's Spacelab Life Sciences mission is in the
laboratory module, an exercise to counter the effects of microgravity on the
human body was conducted on the Orbiter's flight deck.
Commander John Blaha and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur took turns wearing a
device that simulates Earth's gravity environment by pulling body fluids that
drift upward in space back to the lower portion of the body.
The Lower Body Negative Pressure device, or LBNP, is being used on this flight
to help the crew adapt more quickly to the Earth environment once the mission
ends.
In addition, Blaha, McArthur and Pilot Rick Searfoss, are collecting urine and
saliva samples and keeping logs of exercise as well as food and fluid intake as
part of an effort to study the nutritional and energy requirements of
astronauts on long-duration space flights.
Searfoss took some time out of his schedule today to discuss the mission with
school children at Russellville High School in Arkansas using the on-board ham
radio equipment called SAREX for Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment.
Throughout the day, the Spacelab crew made up of Payload Commander Rhea Seddon,
Mission Specialists David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty
Fettman, continued life sciences experimentation in the 23-foot-long Spacelab
module tucked in the payload bay of Columbia.
No problems are being tracked by the flight controllers in Mission Control as
Columbia circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of 155 nautical
miles.
The crew sleep period begins a little before 9 tonight Central time and ends
with crew wakeup just before 5 a.m. Thursday.
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| 851.75 | STS-58 Launch Propulsion Report (hard-core trivia alert!) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 21 1993 11:50 | 49 |
| STS-58 FLIGHT RESULTS - Propulsion Elements
Solid Rocket Boosters- SRBs BI-061; RSRMs 360L034A, 360W034B
All Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) systems performed as expected.
Preliminary data indicate that the flight performance of both RSRMs was
well within the allowable performance envelopes, and was typical of the
performance observed on previous flights.
Both RSRMs experienced normal pressure perturbations with temporary
pressure spikes of 8-12 psi for 1-2 seconds between 65-70 seconds into the
flight. Nominal pressure is 650 psi for that time frame. These short duration
pressure perturbations are the result of molten propellant solids that are
generated during the flight and expelled through the nozzle. This is an
expected characteristic of the motor.
Both SRBs were successfully separated from the External Tank (ET) at T +
123.8 seconds, and reports from the recovery area, based on visual sightings,
indicate that the parachute deceleration subsystems performed as designed.
Both SRBs are currently at Hangar AF at the Kennedy Space Center. During
recovery of the boosters, engineers observed one of the four forward booster
separation motor covers was missing from the right-hand booster. These covers
protect the motors that are used to separate the boosters from the external
tank after the boosters have been expended. An investigation team has been
formed to determine the cause and when during the flight of STS-58 the booster
separation motor cover came off. Past occurrences of missing forward
separation motor covers (STS-28, STS-48) have been found to occur during SRB
descent, frustum water impact, or frustum retrieval from the ocean when
parachute lines often become entangled with the doors and cause damage to
doors. Therefore these were not safety of flight issues.
External Tank - ET-57
The External Tank (ET) performed as expected. ET separation was
confirmed, and since Main Engine Cutoff (MECO) occurred within expected
tolerances, ET reentry and breakup is expected to be within the predicted
footprint.
Space Shuttle Main Engine - SSMEs 2024, 2109, 2018
Preliminary flight data indicate that SSME performance during mainstage,
throttling, shutdown and propellant dump operations was normal. High Pressure
Oxidizer Turpopump (HPOTP) and High Pressure Fuel Turbopump (HPFTP)
temperatures appeared to be well within specification throughout engine
operation. Space Shuttle Main Engine Cutoff (MECO) occurred at T + 515.56
seconds.
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| 851.76 | Suggest volcano images from this mission | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Oct 21 1993 16:39 | 61 |
| From: US1RMC::"VOLCANO%ASUACAD.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU" "VOLCANO" 20-OCT-1993
To: Multiple recipients of list VOLCANO <VOLCANO%ASUACAD.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU>
CC:
Subj: Earth photography during the current shuttle mission.
The Space Shuttle flight STS-58 launched 14:53 GMT (9:53 CDT) October
18, 1993 and will last for 14 days. As usual, the astronauts will be
taking hand-held color and color infrared photography of Earth as part
of the Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project (SSEOP). The purpose
of this message is to solicit suggestions for potential sites
(on-going research projects) to be photographed during the mission.
Please send your E-Mail address, together with suggestions, including
site latitude and longitude, feature or phenomena of interest, and
brief (one or two lines) description of your project to:
evans@sn3.jsc.nasa.gov
The orbit and camera/film/lens parameters for the mission are as follows:
Altitude: 153 nm. (282 km)
Inclination: 39 degrees (that means the Shuttle will only pass
over areas between 39 N and 39 S).
This is a 1-shift mission, so part of the world (south of about
15 degrees south) will not be illuminated while the crew is awake.
There will be good opportunities over the much of the U.S., Central
America, northern South America and Africa, southern Europe and
central and south Asia.
Camera/Lens/Film: 70 mm Hasselblad with 50, 100, and 250 mm
lenses. A near-vertical Hasselblad photograph using the 250 mm lens
will cover an area roughly 65km by 65 km. The majority of film will
be Ektachrome 64 color transparency, although there will be some 70 mm
color infrared film.
While SSEOP cannot guarantee that suggested sites will be collected,
all suggestions will be given serious consideration. Earth
photography is dependent upon other mission activities (including
sleep periods), orbit track, Shuttle orientation, available film, and
cloud cover (although clouds may be a target). Should the photography
of your site be acquired, you will be notified and the photography may
then be ordered through the Technology Application Center in
Albuquerque or EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD. Realize that it may
be some time before these distribution centers receive their copies of
the film from which they make their products. If you do not get a
response, it means that the photography, due to one or more of the
constraints listed above, was not collected.
Cindy Evans
Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project
evans@sn3.jsc.nasa.gov
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| 851.77 | MCC Status Reports #5,6 ; SLS-2 Status Reports #6,7 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Oct 22 1993 12:11 | 220 |
| MISSION CONTROL STATUS REPORT # 5
Thursday, October 21, 1993
5 a.m. CDT
Virtually all the Space Shuttle Columbia's systems continued to function well
during the crew's sleep shift. The seven-person crew was awakened at 4:53 a.m.
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew's fourth day on orbit again will concentrate
on studies of how microgravity affects the human body, with the orbiter crew
participating in exercise sessions on a bicycle ergometer.
Pilot Rick Searfoss will collect readings on the amount and level of noise in
the crew cabin and laboratory as part of Development Test Objective 663.
Searfoss and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will attempt a number of ham
radio contacts with school children through the Shuttle Amateur Radio
Experiment.
The crew also will be taking a look at Columbia's waste collection system after
crew members spotted a small amount of waste water around the commode's
bacterial odor filter. Commander John Blaha reported the crew had noticed the
liquid on four occasions, but that it had not been a problem to clean up.
Columbia is circling the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of 155 nautical
miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #6
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 21, 1993
2/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
STS-58 crew members are gearing up for their fourth day of
medical experiments on National Biomedical Research Day, which
celebrates the contributions medical research has made to improving
the health of humans and animals.
Scientists report that they are pleased with the science data
sent down sofar during the mission. Several experiments have
received data on more than the planned number of subjects and,
according to the early feedback from the investigators, preliminary
results seem to support many of the Spacelab Life Sciences 1
findings.
Overnight activities at the Spacelab Mission Operations
Control Center in Huntsville, Ala., went smoothly, setting the
stage for the metabolic, cardiovascular and neuroscience work on
orbit today.
This morning Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission
Specialists Shannon Lucid and David Wolf and Payload Specialist
Martin Fettman collected additional blood and urine samples for the
series of metabolic experiments. Some of the samples will
follow-up on the calcium absorption experiment performed
yesterday. The experiment, sponsored by Dr. C.D. Arnaud of the
University of California at San Francisco, studies the mechanisms
of how calcium is maintained and used in bone metabolism in space.
Based on preliminary results from the 1991 SLS-1 mission, Dr.
Arnaud believes the decrease in bone density is due to increased
bone breakdown that is not compensated for by a subsequent increase
in bone formation.
Two different tracers were injected this morning and will be
tracked as they move through the body. The isotope, Iron 59, will
extend the results of Skylab studies by tracking red blood cell
production. The tracer tags red blood cells as they move from the
bone marrow, where red blood cells are produced, through the
circulatory system. Blood samples will be collected throughout the
morning to determine if red cell production is altered during space
flight. This experiment, sponsored by Dr. Clarence Alfrey of
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, also uses the tracer,
Iodine 125, to determine the plasma volume in blood.
Iodine 125 also is used for the investigation conducted by Dr.
Carolyn Leach of Johnson Space Center in Houston for plasma volume
measurements to determine how the regulatory system adapts to the
natural shift of body fluids to the upper torso. Dr. Leach will
assess the impact of this fluid shift on kidney function and the
specific mechanisms involved in establishing new homeostatic levels
in response to the fluid shift.
Cardiovascular experiments continue today with measurements of
leg blood flow and compliance, which is the amount of blood pooled
in the leg for a given increase of pressure in the leg veins. For
the second time in the 14-day mission, Wolf, Lucid and Fettman, and
possibly Pilot Rick Searfoss if time permits, will use a full
leg-length stocking, called a Thornton stocking, to measure the
girth of the leg. From those measurements, scientists will
determine the volume of blood in the leg that has shifted upward to
the upper torso. Wolf and Lucid also will take additional leg
volume measurements by placing a cuff or band above the knee of
their left leg. By inflating and deflating the cuff in a stepwise
fashion, blood pressure and blood volume in the leg's veins and
arteries can be measured to determine how the cardiovascular system
has adapted to space. Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist of the University of
Texas Health Science Center in Dallas is the Principal
Investigator.
Wolf, Fettman and Lucid will conduct additional data takes for
cardiac output studies. Later today, they will pedal on an
exercise bicycle to determine how their hearts and lungs function
in and adapt to weightlessness, both at rest and during various
levels of exercise. During the activity, they will breath into a
gas analyzer, which measures the composition of inspired and
expired air to calculate cardiac output. This activity supports
the "Inflight Study of Cardiovascular Deconditioning" experiment by
Dr. Leon Farhi of the State University of New York in Buffalo and
"Cardiovascular Adaptation to Zero Gravity" experiment by Dr.
Blomqvist.
Vestibular research continues today using the rotating chair
for the first time. The rotating chair is one of seven procedures
to investigate the effects of weightlessness on the sense of
balance and vestibular system. Seddon, Wolf and Fettman will sit
in a chair wearing goggles (to minimize distractions), and wear an
Accelerometer Recording Unit, Electromyogram amplifier and
electrodes to record head motion and eye movements. The test
begins when the subject is spun in the chair and then stopped. In
one phase the subject will remain upright, while in another he/she
will pitch his/her head forward. Involuntary eye movements will be
measured during both procedures.
Other activities include the regular check of the 48 rodents
flying onboard Columbia and a change of their waste trays.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 STATUS REPORT #6
Thursday, October 21, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
While the Spacelab crew spent their day collecting information and conducting
experiments in the module in Columbia's payload bay, the orbiter crew inspected
a filter canister that removes odor and bacteria from the cabin air during
operation of the waste management system.
Though the space toilet is working fine, the crew detected a slight leak around
the filter door last night before going to bed and checked it earlier today,
removed the filter and cleaned up about a teaspoon of water -- much less than
had been expected. As a precaution, a secondary fan separator unit will be
used to separate fluid from the air before cycling the air back into the cabin
through the filter.
With that done, the crew made several contacts using the ham radio equipment
called SAREX, to discuss the STS-58 mission with several schools around the
U.S.
The crew was scheduled begin its sleep period shortly before 9 p.m. central and
wakeup just before 5 o'clock tomorrow morning.
All orbiter systems continue to perform well, with no problems being tracked by
flight controllers that would impact the mission or the activities in the
Spacelab module. Columbia's current orbit is 155 nautical miles with a period
of 90 minutes.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #7
4:30 p.m. CDT, Oct. 21, 1993
3/6:37 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Smooth operations continued throughout the day aboard Spacelab Life
Sciences 2 as the crew carried out their methodical study of how the human body
adapts to weightlessness.
"We're up here for everyone down there," said Mission Specialist Bill
McArthur in an interview with National Public Radio early this afternoon,
referring to unique opportunities for biomedical research as heart, regulatory,
bone and nervous systems are studied in the absence of gravity.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon was the flight's first subject of the
rotating chair experiment, one of several tests of the astronauts' sense of
equilibrium provided by their vestibular systems. The experiment studies an
eye reflex, known as the vestibulo-ocular reflex, which "is what allows us to
see while we're moving," explained Co-Investigator Dr. Daniel Merfield of MIT.
"Without this reflex, objects around us would appear blurry as we move."
To induce the reflex and the eye movements associated with it, Mission
Specialist Shannon Lucid manually turned the chair with Seddon secured in it,
then suddenly stopped the rotation. In later runs, Seddon pitched her head
forward as the rotation stopped. Mission Specialist Dave Wolf and Payload
Specialist Marty Fettman will later take spins in the chair. The experiment is
scheduled for more runs on flight day 10.
Scientists believe the vestibulo-ocular reflex should work differently in
space because it is influenced by the vestibular system, which is sensitive to
gravity. Earlier flights of the experiment indicate some of the dynamics of
the reflex do change in weightlessness, and that the people who showed the
greatest changes in the reflex experienced the most space sickness over the
course of the mission. The SLS-2 experiment may help verify those results.
Fettman, Lucid and Wolf, the primary subjects of the mission's
cardiovascular experiments, repeated measurements of their leg girth made on
the first day of flight. Then they completed in turn the first of two
scheduled tests of their venous compliance, the ability of large veins to
accommodate changes in blood volume. A device placed around their left thighs,
similar to a blood-pressure cuff, momentarily stopped the flow of blood in the
veins to their legs. A second device around their calves measured the
circumference of their legs. Scientists use comparisons of blood volume to
blood pressure to assess how the cardiovascular system is adapting to space.
Both the leg girth and venous compliance measurements will be repeated on
flight day 12.
The three then repeated tests of their cardiac output, the amount of blood
pumped per heart beat. During both rest and bicycle exercise sessions, they
inhaled and exhaled specified gas mixtures to be measured by a gas analyzer, a
technique developed by Principal Investigator Dr. Leon Farhi of the State
University of New York. First performed on the second day of flight, the
experiment is scheduled for additional runs on the eighth and twelfth flight
days. The experiment aims to determine how the heart and lungs perform in and
adapt to a weightless environment, and how that adaptation affects the
astronauts' readjustment to gravity.
Wolf and McArthur tended the rodent cages as the day wound down, again
preserving waste trays for post-flight analysis.
The crew will maintain an 8:53 p.m. bedtime and 4:53 a.m.
wake-up schedule as they have throughout the flight.
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| 851.78 | STS-58 element set JSC-010 (orbit 53) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Oct 22 1993 12:12 | 76 |
| STS-58
1 22869U 93 65 A 93294.86836529 .00191327 00000-0 25999-3 0 108
2 22869 39.0211 107.4394 0004523 319.1598 40.8836 15.96428488 535
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 22869
Epoch time: 93294.86836529 = (21 OCT 93 20:50:26.76 UTC)
Element set: 010
Inclination: 39.0211 deg
RA of node: 107.4394 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: .0004523 Keplerian Element set JSC-010
Arg of perigee: 319.1598 deg from NASA flight Day 4 vector
Mean anomaly: 40.8836 deg
Mean motion: 15.96428488 rev/day G. L. Carman
Decay rate: 1.91327e-03 rev/day~2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 53
Checksum: 331
G.L.CARMAN
***************************** STS-58 STATE VECTOR**************************
FLIGHT DAY 3 STATE VECTORS
ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
(Posted 10/20/93 by Roger Simpson)
The following vector for the flight of STS-58 is provided by NASA Johnson Space
Center, Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in ground track plotting
programs. The vector represents the trajectory of Columbia during on orbit
operations.
Lift off Time : 1993/291/14:53:09.974
Lift off Date : 10/18/93
Vector Time (GMT) : 293/12:53:09.97
Vector Time (MET) : 001/22:00:00.000
Orbit Count : 31
Weight : 244042.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 2750.0 SQ FT
M50 Elements Keplerian Elements
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X = 16969878.8 FT A = 3597.5986 NM
Y = 2836158.9 FT E = 0.000347
Z = -13489544.1 FT I (M50) = 39.21918 DEG
Xdot = -6834.680213 FT/S Wp (M50) = 15.01738 DEG
Ydot = 24182.124661 FT/S RAAN (M50) = 115.61124 DEG
Zdot = -3501.127754 FT/S / N (True) = 242.35927 DEG
Anomalies \ M (Mean) = 242.39454 DEG
Ha = 154.708 NM
Hp = 151.573 NM
Mean of 1950 (M50) : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System origin is the center of the earth. The epoch
is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A: Semi-major axis
E: Eccentricity N: True anomaly
I: Inclination M: Mean anomaly
Wp: Argument of perigee Ha: Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node Hp: Height of perigee
Questions regarding these postings may be addressed to Roger Simpson,
Mail Code DM4, L. B. J. Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058,
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| 851.79 | NASA Select Schedule | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Oct 22 1993 12:14 | 9 |
| Rev. E available.
pragma::public:[nasa]sts-58.nasa_select
No major changes seen.. Dates and times are correct now.
- dave
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| 851.80 | NPR's Talk of the Nation | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Oct 22 1993 12:16 | 9 |
| I was watching the daily highlights last night and noticed that National
Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" show had an event.
Talk of the Nation is a call-in show, and 3 or 4 people had a chance to
chat with an astronaut (McArthur, I believe). Pretty good for a toll-free
call! :-)
- dave
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| 851.81 | MCC Status Reports #7,8; SLS-2 Status Reports #8,9 (Friday) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 25 1993 12:30 | 207 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #7
Friday, October 22, 1993, 5 a.m. CDT
The STS-58 crew was awakened at 4:53 a.m. CDT to begin its fifth of 14 days on
orbit, a day that will include some off-duty time for all of the crew members.
Two musical selections began the day, "Jumpin' the Line," by Harry Belafonte,
and "Doctor, Doctor," by the Thompson Twins.
All orbiter systems continue to perform well, as Columbia provides a steady
155-nautical-mile- high platform for biomedical experiments designed to gather
knowledge that will help humans be healthier and more productive in space and
on Earth.
Pilot Rick Searfoss and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will collect urine and
saliva samples and record food and drink intake as part of a continuing energy
utilization study. McArthur will check on the health of the rodents in their
Spacelab holding facility.
Commander John Blaha and Searfoss also will attempt more contacts with school
students through the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment.
Blaha, McArthur and Payload Commander Rhea Seddon also are scheduled to
participate in an interview with CONUS network television stations in Atlanta,
Georgia; West Palm Beach, Florida; Dallas, Texas; and Raleigh, North Carolina,
starting at 4:44 p.m CDT.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #8
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 22, 1993
3/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The STS-58 crew has the morning off to rest and relax before experiments
begin again this afternoon.
Unlike materials science missions where astronauts serve only as operators
of the experiments, during Spacelab Life Sciences-2 astronauts are subjects as
well. Consequently, the crew is pacing themselves during the 14-day mission,
making sure they eat, drink, exercise and sleep properly.
"The crew members are an important part of these investigations," said
Mission Scientist Dr. Howard Schneider. "We want to assure ourselves that we
continue to study the physiological effects of spaceflight and not the
physiological effects of fatigue."
The half-day scheduled for relaxation also will help the crew maintain
their normal biological timing, called circadean rhythm. A consistent daily
schedule is important to ensure that the metabolic results can be correlated
for post-flight comparisons.
"If the crew is up there and is overly stressed, we don't get good
science" Schneider said.
Pilot Rick Searfoss packed a big Atlas of the World for the crew. "One of
the most entertaining things we can do up there is look out the window, so
there will be a lot of nose prints," Payload Commander Rhea Seddon said.
Before the mission, crew members indicated that they would probably spend their
free time watching the world pass below.
Spacelab systems continued to work well through the night and today's
timeline will proceed as planned preflight. Overnight payload controllers
collected data on the cardiac control unit which malfunctioned Thursday
afternoon when Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid was preparing to perform her
cardiac output test. The rebreathing bag used in the test which measures
different heart parameters at rest and during bicycle exercise unexpectedly
inflated while Lucid was performing some system tests. The unit was then
turned off and the bag slowly deflated. The data collected about the incident
will be analyzed during the next few days so controllers can determine if any
malfunction or troubleshooting procedures are needed before Flight Day 8 when
the activity is scheduled again.
This afternoon, Mission Specialists Lucid and David Wolf and Payload
Specialist Martin Fettman will participate in the vestibular drop experiment,
titled "Otolith-Spinal Reflex," which measures the muscle action in the legs to
study signals sent from the middle ear to the brain through the nervous system
in the spine down to the legs. The three astronauts will put on a harness
attached by bungee cords to the Spacelab floor and hold onto a bar. When the
test is activated and the bar is dropped, the astronaut experiences a falling
sensation. As the subject catches himself/herself, electrodes attached to the
legs measure electrical activity in the muscles to determine the relationship
between the nervous system and muscle response.
Scientists can study nervous system processes in space when the force of
gravity is removed in a way not possible on Earth. On Earth, small organs
located in the middle ear, called otoliths, sense gravity's pull in relation to
the head and send signals to
the brain for maintaining balance. In space, scientists believe
other sensory mechanisms will compensate for the loss of the
gravity sensors. Dr. Laurence Young of Massachusetss Institute of
Technology in Cambridge believes this information will be useful in
the development of rehabilitative medicine for bedridden patients.
Other activities scheduled for today include collecting the
waste trays for the 48 rats, which are reported to be healthy and
active.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 STATUS REPORT #8
Friday, October 22, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
While work continued in the life sciences laboratory riding in Columbia's
payload bay, orbiter crew members John Blaha, Rick Searfoss and Bill McArthur
talked with school children around the country; worked with a new standardized
experiment interface rack; and tested a landing simulator.
Using the on-board ham radio called SAREX for Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment,
Blaha and Searfoss contacted school children at the Sycamore Middle School in
Pleasant View, TN, and Gardendale Elementary in Pasadena, TX.
The Standard Interface Rack, or SIR, was tested today by Searfoss to
demonstrate that equipment can be removed from one rack location and
reintegrated into another by a single crew member during orbital operations
while maintaining reliable mechanical, data and power interfaces.
Another new test flying aboard Columbia is a laptop computer simulator that is
being flown to see if it will qualify as a tool for helping the mission
commander and pilot maintain their proficiency for approach and landing during
longer duration Space Shuttle flights. The laptop is controlled using a joy
stick hand controller similar to the one used to fly the orbiter in the final
minutes before landing.
Blaha, McArthur and Payload Commander Rhea Seddon took time out of their work
day to discuss the mission with four television stations around the country and
answered questions ranging from their many experiments to the experience of
being in space.
Columbia's fifteenth voyage into space continued smoothly with no systems
problems that could affect the mission.
The seven-member crew is scheduled to go to sleep at about 8 tonight central
time and wake up tomorrow morning just after four.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #9
5:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 22, 1993
4/07:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
On their morning off, the Spacelab Life Sciences-2 crew reflected on "a
beautiful pass through the cosmos" according to Commander John Blaha, as
Columbia rolled to face the stars, then turned back toward their home planet.
Blaha voiced their sentiments with a message "from the seven human beings in
orbit to the five billion human beings on Earth."
"We ought to be very proud to be part of the human race," Blaha said. "We
have a beautiful planet. We ought to take care of it, and we ought to take
care of ourselves. Doing research on this type of laboratory in space can do a
lot to improve the welfare of the five billion people who live on our planet."
The astronauts went back to work at around 1:15 p.m. as Payload Specialist
Marty Fettman began the mission's second run of the "drop" experiment. It is
one of several tests of how the human balance system adapts to a weightless
environment, and how those adapations may contribute to space motion sickness.
The drop experiment studies the otolith-spinal reflex, the signal a person's
inner ear motion sensors send for the legs to brace and prepare for landing
when he or she falls.
To simulate the falling sensation, Mission Specialist Dave Wolf harnessed
Fettman to bungee cords attached to the Spacelab floor. Fettman stretched to
grasp a bar near the lab ceiling, which then released randomly so the bungee
cords could pull him downward. Electrodes recorded his leg muscles' reaction
as they tensed to prepare him for the unexpected "fall." Almost the entire
Shuttle crew were later subjects of the experiment, which was conducted on the
first flight day and will be repeated on day 11. Co-investigator Dr. Doug Watt
of McGill University in Canada will be looking for differences in the speed of
the reflex as the crew accumulates more time in orbit.
Pilot Rick Searfoss tested out a new experiment rack design for possible
use on future Spacelabs and aboard the space station. It has the same standard
connections as those found in many ground-based labs, which could make it
easier to conduct space experiments with off-the-shelf hardware. The exercise
demonstrated that equipment could be easily removed from one rack location to
another by a crew member in orbit, and still provide reliable mechanical, data
and power connections. Searfoss pronounced the operation a "piece of cake,"
saying it was twice as easy to do in space as it had been on the ground.
Later, Fettman will check out of the Body Mass Measurement Device, which
serves the same purpose for the orbiting research lab as scales do in a
doctor's office. The chair-like device shakes slightly with a crew member
strapped inside, to measure body volume and mass in weightlessness. Each crew
member "weighs in" daily. Body mass measurements are part of the data
collected for metabolic experiments tracking protein metabolism, calcium loss,
body fluid and salt regulation, and red blood cell production during space
flight.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will do
a daily check of the rodent feeders and water supplies and change out the rats'
waste trays, and Wolf will fine-tune a small, rodent-sized version of the Body
Mass Measurement Device in preparation for tomorrow's activities. Tomorrow's
focus will shift from tests on the Spacelab's human
inhabitants, sponsored by the Johnson Space Center, to parallel
Ames Research Center experiments on the 48 rodents aboard.
Eight hours of sleep again are scheduled for the crew, from
8:53 p.m. today to 4:53 a.m. Saturday.
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| 851.82 | MCC Status Reports #9,10; SLS-2 Status Reports #10,11 (Saturday) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 25 1993 12:33 | 220 |
| STS-58 Status Report #9
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Saturday, October 23, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Columbia's seven astronauts were awakened for their sixth day of biomedical
research in orbit at 4:08 AM Central time by the song "Out There, Somewhere",
played for the crew by flight controllers.
The astronauts were awakened after an uneventful eight-hour sleep period in
which flight controllers compiled messages and updates for the crew's flight
plan as the shuttle sailed smoothly on with its systems and those of the
Spacelab science module reported to be in good shape.
On Saturday, the payload crew members will devote much of their time to
metabolic studies of the 48 rodents on board the Spacelab science workshop.
Payload commander Rhea Seddon, and crewmates David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and
veterinarian Marty Fettman are scheduled to draw blood from the tails of some
of the rodents, then inject a special isotope into the rodents to measure the
volume of their plasma. Another blood draw will follow, to measure how
weightlessness may be affecting the red blood cell count of the animals.
Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and mission specialist Bill McArthur
will be conducting tests in the Lower Body Negative Pressure device again,
trying to pull fluids which have pooled in the upper regions of their bodies,
back down to their lower extremetries. The LBNP device is being used to try to
counteract the lightheaded feeling some astronauts experience when they return
to Earth from a long stay in microgravity.
Searfoss and Fettman also plan several ham radio contacts with amateur radio
buffs on Earth as part of the continuing SAREX, or Shuttle Amateur Radio
Experiment project aboard Columbia.
This afternoon, Blaha and Searfoss are scheduled to conduct a small firing of
Columbia's maneuvering jets in a so-called "orbital adjust burn", to provide
Columbia with additional landing opportunities should the shuttle be forced to
remain in orbit past its planned landing on November 1st.
Columbia's power and fuel levels are looking good in its sixth day in space.
Flight controllers say there is almost a day's worth of reserve of electricity
and other consumables past the normal 14 day plus 2 contingency day margin for
the shuttle. Columbia is orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of
about 155 nautical miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #10
10:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 23, 1993
5/00:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew awoke this morning to the good
news that all Spacelab equipment, including the Research Animal
Holding Facility and the refrigerator/freezers, continues to
operate very well. There was no major replanning overnight.
Before breakfast, the crew collected samples of their own blood in
follow-ups of experiments investigating the loss of red blood cell
mass and bone density astronauts are known to experience during
space flight.
The focus of biomedical research shifted from humans to animals at
about 7:30 a.m., when the crew began the first session during the
flight when they will interact with some of the 48 rodents
onboard. The animal experiments are sponsored by NASA's Ames
Research Center in California. Mission Specialists Dave Wolf and
Shannon Lucid will work with the rodents this morning. Payload
Commander Rhea Seddon and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman will
take over later.
The payload crew members will insert a catheter into a tail vein of
each of five rats. After taking background blood samples from the
veins, the astronauts will inject the rodents with isotopes Iodine
125 and Iron 59 -- two of the biological tracers the astronauts
received earlier in the mission -- to determine plasma volume and
track iron metabolism. Ten minutes later they will take another
blood sample. They will record the rats' body mass with the Small
Body Mass Measurement Device. Follow-up blood samples will be
collected 24 hours after the injections.
The activities support two hematology experiments which look at how
red blood cell mass changes and why it changes in orbit.
Scientists know there is a decrease of the cell mass in
weightlessness, but they do not know if the anemia is due to a
decrease in red blood cell production or an increase in
destruction. They will trace the process with the iron isotope, as
it is incorporated into the bone marrow where the cells are made,
attaches to a new red blood cell and grows to maturity, then breaks
down and is finally excreted from the body.
Dr. Albert Ichiki of the University of Tennessee Medical Center in
Knoxville provided the Regulation of Erythropoiesis (red blood cell
production) During Space Flight investigation. Dr. Clarence P.
Alfrey of the Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital
in Houston is principal investigator for the Regulation of Blood
Volume During Space Flight experiment. Alfrey is also principal
investigator of a parallel SLS-2 study of the influence of space
flight on red blood cell production in humans.
Later, the crew will measure the mass of 10 more rats scheduled to
be used in a countermeasure study on flight day nine. At that
time, the rats will be injected with erythropoietin, a hormone that
stimulates red blood cell production, to see if it will counteract
cell loss.
"The mechanisms controlling red blood cell production that are
affected in space are the same as those affected in people on the
ground with illnesses like leukemia, chronic renal disease and
autoimmune diseases affecting red blood cell production," said
Fettman as he explained the purpose of the experiments this
morning. "If we can show that the mechanisms are the same in the
rats as they are in the people in the process of space anemia, and
erythropoietin is an effective countermeasure, this may have
long-ranging effects in benefiting both people and animals back on
Earth."
While the payload crew concentrates on animal science, Commander
John Blaha and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will complete
45-minute sessions in the Lower Body Negative Pressure bag. The
experiment, which pulls headward-shifted body fluids back into the
legs, is a possible treatment to counteract the dizziness sometimes
experienced by astronauts on landing.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #10
Saturday, October 23, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
While Columbia's payload crew continued life sciences studies in the
pressurized module tucked in the orbiter's cargo bay, the remaining astronauts
watched over spacecraft systems and performed an orbit adjust burn to optimize
landing opportunities for the end of the mission.
After several ham radio contacts around the country and work in a vacuum bag
designed to ease the body's readaptation to Earth's environment, the orbiter
crew made up of Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and Mission
Specialist Bill McArthur oversaw a short firing of one of the orbital
maneuvering system engines to drop the low end of Columbia's orbit from 150 to
142 nautical miles to increase the landing opportunities should the mission be
extended for weather or a system problem that would keep the crew in orbit two
extra days.
The burn ensures a second landing opportunity in California at the Edwards Air
Force Base facility and an additional opportunity at the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida.
The burn did not impact science work which continued throughout the day in the
Spacelab module by the payload crew made up of Payload Commander Rhea Seddon,
Mission Specialists David Wolf and Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty
Fettman.
The crew's sixth day in space is scheduled to end with a standard eight-hour
sleep period beginning just after 8 p.m. tonight central time. The crew will
awaken just after 4 a.m. tomorrow.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #11
4:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 23, 1993
5/06:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 payload crew is concluding a day of very
successful tests on some of the rodents which accompanied them into orbit.
This morning, the crew transferred five rats from the Research Animal Holding
Facility to a Spacelab workstation for blood tests mirroring those being run on
the astronauts themselves. They injected the rats with isotopes of iodine and
iron to measure their plasma volume and track red blood cell production and
loss. An hour ahead of schedule, Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid told
controllers the crew had finished injecting tracers, taking follow-up blood
samples and measuring the mass of all five rats.
Information gathered on the animals in flight will be compared to similar tests
before launch and after landing, as well as to those being conducted
simultaneouly with an identical group of rodents back on Earth. Only pre-flight
and post-flight tests were made on the rats taken into space aboard the first
Spacelab Life Sciences flight in 1991. Principal Investigators for the two
rodent hematology experiments, Dr. Albert Ichiki and Dr. Clarence Alfrey,
expect the addition of inflight measurements will give them a good indication
of how production of red blood cells is affected by weightlessness.
This afternoon, the crew "weighed" 10 other rats, scheduled to be injected on
flight day nine with a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production.
Since it is impossible to literally weigh anything in the absence of gravity,
they placed the rats in a small mass measurement instrument, a device which
shakes slightly to determine body mass.
Wolf reported the animals' food consumption during the daily rodent check,
adding that all the rats were clean and active, and looked "curious and
interested."
As they did on flight day three, Commander John Blaha and Mission Specialist
Bill McArthur each spent 45 minutes with their legs encased in the Lower Body
Negative Pressure unit. Repetitions over the course of the mission will track
their loss of orthostatic tolerance, the ability to stand upright without
dizziness. This is the seventh flight of the experiment, but the first when a
treatment to restore orthostatic tolerance will be completed late enough in the
mission to be tested during landing.
After finishing their scheduled assignments for the day, Lucid and Wolf checked
out the cardiopulmonary control unit which malfunctioned before the last run of
the cardiovascular deconditioning experiment Thursday. Ground controllers
instructed the mission specialists to turn on the cardiopulmonary control unit
with the air tank and lines disconnected for several diagnostic tests of its
internal computer. The equipment will not be needed until the eighth day of
flight, when the next run of the cardiac output test is scheduled, and payload
controllers hoped to gain insight from these tests into how best to
troubleshoot the earlier problem.
The crew is scheduled to go to sleep at around 8 p.m. today and wake up at
around 4 a.m. Sunday.
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| 851.83 | MCC Status Reports #11,12; SLS-2 Status Reports #12,13 (Sunday) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 25 1993 12:36 | 249 |
| STS-58 Status Report #11
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Sunday, October 24, 1993, 6 a.m
The seven astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia were awakened at 4:08 AM
Central time this morning by flight controllers to the sound of Jim Nabors'
rendition of "Back Home In Indiana" for Mission Specialist David Wolf, a native
of Indianapolis, to begin the seventh day of the astronauts' planned 14-day
biomedical research flight.
After a quiet eight-hour sleep period, the astronauts embarked on a day which
will be highlighted by more metabolic experiments with some of the 48 rodents
housed in special cages in the Spacelab science module located in Columbia's
cargo bay.
Throughout the day Sunday, Mission Specialists David Wolf and Shannon Lucid
plan to collect more blood samples from several rodents as part of the
comparative metabolic research being conducted to compare the effect of long
stints of microgravity on both human and animal blood. The results could yield
clues about the cause of anemia and other ailments resulting from the lack of
proper red blood cell production.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and crewmate Bill McArthur will spend several
hours performing scheduled maintenance on the 24 rodent cages which are
contained in two racks in the Spacelab workshop. They'll change the rodents
food and water supplies and clean out the animals' waste trays, saving the
waste material for post-flight study by researchers on Earth. Payload
Specialist and veterinarian Marty Fettman will perform health checks on all the
rodents and will help Seddon and McArthur with many of the maintenance tasks
involving the rodent cages.
Commander John Blaha and Pilot Rick Searfoss will man cameras aboard Columbia
to shoot scenes for an educational video about this second Spacelab Life
Sciences mission. Blaha will also conduct routine maintenance work on the
shuttle's air filtering system while Searfoss maneuvers the orbiter as part of
an experiment to measure how subtle changes in the orientation of the shuttle
place acceleration forces on the spaceship.
This afternoon, Wolf will take a turn flying simulated landing approaches on a
laptop computer as part of the PILOT experiment, or Portable Inflight Landing
Operations Trainer. The computer software is being tested as a possible tool
for future shuttle commanders and pilots to use in maintaining proficient
landing skills during long duration spaceflights.
And, the astronauts will have a chance to catch a glimpse of the Compton Gamma
Ray Observatory through the shuttle's overhead windows as it passes within
about 72 miles of Columbia.
The orbiter's systems are in good shape with an abundant supply of consumables
on board as Columbia circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of about
172 miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #12
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 24, 1993
4/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences-2 crew has started another busy day, to
include completing yesterday's rat hematology experiments, changing
food and water supplies in the Research Animal Holding Facilities,
and getting several bonus runs of the human lung function test. In
between science assignments, they will videotape explanations of
the life science mission for an upcoming NASA educational video.
Mission Specialists Dave Wolf and Shannon Lucid are taking
follow-up blood samples from the tail veins of five rats.
Yesterday, the animals were injected with isotopes of iodine and
iron for two experiments investigating the mechanisms which trigger
space anemia. The isotopes serve as tracers, which enable
scientists to monitor changes taking place in the rats' blood by
analyzing periodic blood samples. The same isotopes are being used
with the astronaut crew.
The inflight samples, along with those made before and after the
flight, will allow investigators to determine the volume of red
blood cells and plasma, the length of survival of the red blood
cells, the number of red blood cells being made during space flight
and the number being released into the blood. They hope to apply
results to identifying causes of space anemia in humans, as well as
learning the basic regulatory physiology of red blood cell
production as it relates to diseases afflicting people on Earth.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon is busy refilling the water supply
bags in the two Research Animal Holding Facilities. Later today,
Wolf will change the rat feeder cartridges.
Last night, payload controllers decided to delete a second run of
the Head Movement Comparison Test, originally scheduled for this
afternoon. The test correlates head movements and space motion
sickness symptoms by having astronauts perform specified head
maneuvers and record any uneasiness they experience. However, the
SLS-2 crew reported no symptoms on the first run of the test on
Flight Day 3. It is known from previous space missions that
astronauts' sensory systems adapt to weightlessness in the first
few days of flight. Once the adaptation takes place, it remains
fairly constant. Since the SLS-2 crew apparently adapted by Flight
Day 3, there is no reason to repeat the test.
The extra time in the schedule is allowing Wolf, Lucid and Payload
Specialist Marty Fettman to colllect more data on how their lungs
function in the absence of gravity. "Pulmonary Function in
Weightlessness" is flying on SLS-2 as a reserve experiment, to be
performed as time becomes available rather than being scheduled
pre-flight, and today takes the place of the head movement test.
The three crew members will breathe into a rebreathing assembly,
manipulating valves that allow them to breathe different gas
mixtures. The gases they exhale will be analyzed by the gas
analyzer mass spectrometer. By comparing inflight readings to
those taken before and after the mission, scientists hope to
determine the effects of weightlessness on lung function.
Science operations continue to be very smooth, and science teams at
Johnson Space Center in Houston and Ames Research Center in
California are extremely pleased with the quality and amount of
data they have collected thus far. Spacelab controllers are not
tracking any system or experiment problems at this time.
Late yesterday, the crew did a troubleshooting test on equpiment
for the cardiovascular deconditioning experiment. A rebreathing
bag had unexpectedly inflated during preparations for the last
experiment run Thursday. Yesterday's checks on the systems found
no problems with the equipment, and the experiment team has
pronounced it ready to go for Flight Day 8, the next time those
activities are scheduled.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #13
4:30 p.m. CDT, Oct. 24, 1993
6/06:37 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Experiments to determine how the seven crew members and 48 rodents aboard
Spacelab Life Sciences 2 adapt to weightlessness were running ahead of schedule
as the 14-day mission neared its mid-point.
Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid finished blood draws for the two rodent
hematology experiments about an hour early, saying, "Everything went just as
slick as can be." The next activity for those experiments is set for Flight Day
9. At that time, 10 other rats will be injected with a hormone that stimulates
the production of red blood cells to determine its effectiveness in countering
space anemia.
The crew performed planned mid-flight servicing of the two Research Animal
Holding Facilities. Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and Mission Specialist Dave
Wolf refilled fluid dispensers with water from the orbiter galley. They
substituted a backup water supply hose when the primary hose became temporarily
clogged, and still completed the assignment well ahead of the planned time.
Payload Specialist Marty Fettman and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur changed
out the rodent feed bars. Food for 12 of the animals contains calcium tracers
for an investigation into how weightlessness affects the rats' bone formation
and calcium metabolism. Waste trays are collected on a daily basis through
Flight Day 8 and again on Day 10 to track how the rodents process the calcium.
Principal Investigator Dr. Emily Morey-Holton of the NASA Ames Research Center
theorizes that gravity is necessary for normal development of bone structure,
and that decreased gravity causes defective skeletal growth where bone mass
increases but bone strength does not. The SLS-2 experiment will help determine
the validity of this theory. Dr. Morey-Holton will follow the rats' recovery
after landing to determine whether the defects are corrected on return to
Earth.
Another of the six SLS-2 animal experiments evaluates energy metabolism in the
back leg muscles of rats exposed to space flight. Skeletal muscle cells from
the flight rats will be compared with those of ground control rats after
landing, so this experiment does not require any interaction of the crew with
the rats during flight.
Results from the first Spacelab Life Sciences mission suggest weightlessness
causes the muscles to convert gradually from the slow-contracting fibers used
in standing and walking to the fast-contracting muscles that sprinters use.
The muscles are capable of a high output of force, but they are easily
fatigued.
"It is not surprising that it takes astronauts a few days to recover their
preflight strength and coodination after flight, since their muscles are
remodeled by microgravity," said Principal Investigator Dr. Kenneth Baldwin of
the University of California, Irvine. Because turnover of muscle protein is
much more rapid in rats than in humans, two weeks' exposure to weightlessness
for rodents will be roughly equivalent to two months for astronauts,
approximating effects on human muscles over a long space mission.
Seddon, Wolf, Fettman, McArthur and Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid took
breathing tests for the Pulmonary Function in Weightlessness experiment, giving
Principal Investigator John B. West of the University of California at San
Diego more bonus data. The experiment was planned to be performed only on a
time-available basis. Deletion of a vestibular experiment previously set for
this afternoon, along with the crew's speedy completion of today's schedule,
allowed ample time for the lung function experiment.
Gravity plays a major role in lung function on Earth, with more air
distribution, blood flow and pressure toward the bottom of the lung than the
top. Even the shape of the lungs is distorted by gravity. Prior to SLS-1,
scientists believed that lung ventilation would be much more even in space than
on Earth. However, data from that mission revealed that lung function improved
only by about half as much as was expected. The SLS-2 breathing tests use
improved equipment to record the distribution and movement of blood and gas
within the lungs for later comparison to normal respiration in Earth's gravity.
Seddon and Fettman had time to put together a backup breathing assembly for
tomorrow's cardiovascular deconditioning experiment. The primary equipment
worked fine during a dry run yesterday, following a malfunction earlier in the
mission. The backup assembly is simply a precaution in case the earlier
problem occurs.
The crew is scheduled to go to sleep at 8:08 p.m. today and wake up at 4:08
a.m. Monday.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #12
Sunday, October 24, 1993, 5 p.m CDT
Another busy day in space for the crew of Columbia came to an end as the
payload crew members continued their research into the effects of long duration
stays in space on the human body while the orbiter crew maintained the health
of the spacecraft.
Several school contacts were made using the onboard ham radio equipment,
including New York, Ohio and Texas. Mission Specialist Bill McArthur used the
equipment to discuss the mission with Space Center Intermediate students in
Houston that included his daughter Meg, a student at the school.
Pilot Rick Searfoss performed three rotations of the orbiter as it flew over
portions of South America. The acceleration data gathered during jet firings
will help in evaluating and planning for future Shuttle missions that require a
stable environment for experiment work, such as materials processing and
protein crystal growth.
Commander John Blaha and Pilot Rick Searfoss shot scenes for an educational
video about the mission. Blaha also performed routine maintenance work on the
air filtering system aboard the orbiter.
Columbia's systems continue in good shape providing an excellent platform for
the life sciences research ongoing in the pressurized Spacelab module located
in the payload bay. The crew will begin its standard eight hour sleep shift
shortly after 8 tonight central time and will wake up at about 4 a.m. tomorrow.
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| 851.84 | STS-58 element set JSC-011 (orbit 86) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 25 1993 12:36 | 71 |
|
STS-58
1 22869U 93 65 A 93296.93203712 .00108994 00000-0 20250-3 0 114
2 22869 39.0185 93.7039 0015567 16.4294 343.6980 15.99752782 868
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 22869
Epoch time: 93296.93203712 (23 OCT 93 22:22:08.00 UTC)
Element set: 011
Inclination: 39.0185 deg
RA of node: 93.7039 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: .0015567 Keplerian Element set JSC-011
Arg of perigee: 16.4294 deg from NASA flight Day 6 vector
Mean anomaly: 343.6980 deg
Mean motion: 15.99752782 rev/day Gil Carman, WA5NOM
Decay rate: 1.08994e-03 rev/day~2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 86
Checksum: 345
G.L.CARMAN
STS-58
FLIGHT DAY 7 STATE VECTORS
ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
(Posted 10/24/93 by Roger Simpson)
The following vector for the flight of STS-58 is provided by NASA Johnson
Space Center, Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in ground track
plotting programs. The vector represents the trajectory of Columbia
during on orbit operations.
Lift off Time : 1993/291/14:53:09.974
Lift off Date : 10/18/93
Vector Time (GMT) : 297/10:23:09.97
Vector Time (MET) : 005/19:30:00.000
Orbit Count : 94
Weight : 241500.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 4000.0 SQ FT
M50 Elements Keplerian Elements
----------------------- --------------------------
X = -2292072.1 FT A = 3595.9431 NM
Y = 21583040.5 FT E = 0.002856
Z = 1938549.8 FT I (M50) = 39.28405 DEG
Xdot = -19513.566386 FT/S Wp (M50) = 28.33719 DEG
Ydot = -3530.429828 FT/S RAAN (M50) = 89.79364 DEG
Zdot = 15952.091960 FT/S / N (True) = 339.73979 DEG
Anomalies \ M (Mean) = 339.85288 DEG
Ha = 154.928 NM
Hp = 141.373 NM
Mean of 1950 (M50) : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System origin is the center of the earth. The epoch
is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A: Semi-major axis
E: Eccentricity N: True anomaly
I: Inclination M: Mean anomaly
Wp: Argument of perigee Ha: Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node Hp: Height of perigee
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| 851.85 | How about a spacewalk!!! | DEMING::TADRY | Ray Tadry 225-5691 | Mon Oct 25 1993 14:52 | 11 |
| After reading the STS-58 activities to date this mission seems like
alot of fluff and redundant activities with previous STS, Apollo and
Gemini/Skylab missions. I certainly hope someone is using/comparing
all the data collected. Just seems like 2 weeks in space collecting
blood, urine, and rat feces (along with the care and feed of the rats)
is a bit much when alot of the activities could (or have been) done
on future (previous) missions. Please don't get me wrong, I love the
space program but this mission seems very unexciting.
Ray
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| 851.86 | | SKYLAB::FISHER | Carp Diem : Fish the Day | Mon Oct 25 1993 15:46 | 14 |
| I love the NASAese: "Interacting with rats". I suppose the use of the
guillotine will be called "Fatally interacting with rats".
re .8: Well, I agree that it may not be exciting to us on Earth who are not
directly involved, but I hardly think it can be called "fluff and redundant
activities". Science is based on redundant activities. Do an experiment.
Change 1 condition. Repeat the experiment. Try to reproduce an interesting
result. Repeating is not redundant. Besides, while the high-level description
is, "Feed the rats, sample rat blood and feces" and some of that has been done
before, there are certainly important detail that are different. For example,
I think this will be the first time that the rats are "fatally interacted with"
while they are in space.
Burns
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| 851.87 | Interesting note on a visible launch anomaly... | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Oct 25 1993 20:07 | 40 |
| From: hollis@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re : STS-58 engine problem?
Date: 21 Oct 93 02:11:49 EST
Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center
Greetings and Salutations:
From: monksj@db.erau.edu (Jeffrey Monks), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University,
>I have a question about Monday's launch. Does anyone know if there were any
>engine problems during launch? The reason I ask is that one of the news
>stations here in Central FL showed some footage where it looked like a rather
>large solid chunk was flying out of the top central SSME.
Amazingly enough there were no transducer failures or SSME problems during
ascent.
The "chunk" that you saw is conjectured to be a part of the heatshield blanket.
Please note *THIS IS ONLY CONJECTURE AT THIS TIME*. Post landing walkdowns
will hopefully confirm this.
The aft heatshield blankets are the white rings you see around the base of
each engine nozzle. They are part of the heatshield segments that allow the
engine to gimbal while still providing enclosure / heat protection for the aft.
During ascent the aft of the vehicle is heated to up to (or above) 1400
degrees Fahrenheit by radiative heat from the plume of the SRB's (Solid Rocket
Boosters) and SSME's (Space Shuttle Main Engines). The blankets are made out
of quartz woven blanket material and protect part of a "sliding seal". Since
there are patches on the blanket and there is batting in the middle (and two
layers of blanket probably only the top layer came off. However, once again,
all of this is pure conjecture until the vehicle lands.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ken Hollis
INTERNET: HOLLIS@TITAN.KSC.NASA.GOV SPAN/HEPnet: KSCP00::HOLLIS
Dizzyclaimer: If you believe this is in any way, shape, or form actual
official information or opinion,then you are probably as confused if not
more so than I am...I think...
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| 851.88 | | AUSSIE::GARSON | Hotel Garson: No Vacancies | Tue Oct 26 1993 03:12 | 39 |
| 851.89 | Re: .85 --- Change the channel | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Oct 26 1993 12:09 | 16 |
| If you expect every space mission to provide "entertainment value", I would
recommend that you change the channel or modify your expectations. As
others has noted, what you perceive as unexciting (only because you may
not have any particular interest in vestibular research or the effects
of 0-G on the cardio-vascular system) doesn't mean that it isn't exciting.
Science can be very exciting, but it doesn't mean that there has to be
laser guns blasting...
Not all the flights are explorations in the "conquering a frontier" sense.
Call the folks down at Johns Hopkins or a dozen other research centers and
ask the teams involved if this is unexciting...
Sigh...
- dave
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| 851.90 | MCC Status Report #13; SLS-2 Status Reports #14,15 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Oct 26 1993 12:11 | 220 |
| STS-58 Status Report #13
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Monday, October 25, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
After a quiet eight-hour sleep period, the seven astronauts of the shuttle
Columbia were awakened at 4:08 a.m. CDT to the sound of "Shiny, Happy People",
by the group R-E-M to begin their second week of biomedical research in the
Spacelab science workshop housed in Columbia's cargo bay.
The astronauts reached the midway point of their shuttle-record two week
mission, planning a full day of experiments in Spacelab which will focus on
metabolic, neurovestibular and cardiovascular studies.
With Columbia's systems in good shape, flight controllers made very few
revisions to the astronauts' flight plan overnight for the crew's eighth day of
work in orbit. One minor change in the flight plan calls for Commander John
Blaha to reconfigure some equipment in a wall unit in the Spacelab module to
eliminate a high-pitch beeping noise in the wireless headsets which the
astronauts use to communicate with Mission Control.
Mission Specialists David Wolf and Shannon Lucid will work with the Spacelab's
echocardiograph machine today to measure the size of their hearts and how that
size may have changed in their first week in the microgravity environment of
space. They'll be joined later in the day by crewmates Bill McArthur, Rhea
Seddon and Marty Fettman for more work with the Rotating Dome experiment. The
astronauts will once again place their heads in a helmet-like device and try to
follow the movement of spinning dots in front of their eyes. The experiment is
designed to explore why the eye sometimes can offer conflicting signals to the
brain about the position of the body in the absence of gravity.
Pilot Rick Searfoss plans to become a subject for some of the cardiovascular
investigations later today as he joins Fettman and Wolf for several exercise
periods to be conducted at various levels of exertion. Searfoss and Blaha will
conduct routine checks of the Spacelab refrigerator-freezer units as McArthur
and Seddon make another inspection of the 48 rodents housed in the Spacelab,
who are flying aboard Columbia as part of the mission's biomedical studies.
All of the rodents are reported in good condition.
The astronauts plan to use Columbia's ham radio gear for more contacts today
with ham radio operators on Earth, and were notified by flight controllers of
an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Hubble Space Telescope as it passes
within about 175 miles of Columbia at 9:08 a.m. Central time this morning.
Columbia's systems are in good shape with virtually no problems reported as the
shuttle circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of about 160 miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #14
9:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 25, 1993
6/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Spacelab Life Sciences 2 hits a significant scientific milestone today as
the on-orbit metabolic, cardiovascular and neurovestibular studies enter their
eighth day.
The biomedical activities planned for today mirror those of SLS-1's Flight
Day 8, the last science gathering day of the 1991 mission. It is critical for
investigators to repeat the experiments conducted on the first mission to
increase the statistical sampling and validate their SLS-1 findings. Today's
activities will effectively double the number of subjects involved in the SLS-1
and SLS-2 Flight Day 8 studies.
Investigators hope to maximize the scientific benefits by taking
additional samples on Flight Day 12 and thereby gain an even greater
understanding of the role microgravity plays in human spaceflight.
Metabolic activities to study the regulatory, hematology and
musculoskeletal systems started before breakfast. Three different experiments
involving tracer ingestions and injections were performed on various crew
members.
The seven crew members ingested water containing Nitrogen 15-glycine, a
non-radioactive labeled amino acid, to determine how protein metabolism changes
during spaceflight. The investigation sponsored by Dr. T. Peter Stein of the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Camden studies why
astronauts experience a decrease in muscle mass and strength. Blood and urine
samples will help determine if there is a decrease in protein synthesis or an
increase in protein breakdown. Urine samples were taken from all crew members
to monitor the amount of urinary 3-methyl histidine the body eliminates.
Urinary 3-methyl histidine is a naturally occurring chemical in the body which
indicates muscle protein breakdown. Only the four payload crew members -
Payload Commander Rhea Sheddon, Mission Specialists David Wolf and Shannon
Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman - will provide blood samples for
the experiment.
Four other tracers taken this morning will help investigators study how
the body regulates itself and how kidneys work during spaceflight. Oxygen 18
measures total body water. Para-aminohippurate and Inutest measure how the
kidney functions. Sulphur 35 is being used to measure extracellular fluid or
the fluid located outside a cell. Later today, six different blood samples
will be taken to support this investigation by Dr. Carolyn Leach of Johnson
Space Center in Texas.
The third experiment studies the production and disappearance of
erythrocytes or red blood cells which carry oxygen throughout the body. A
measurement, called hematocrit, determines the ratio of red blood cells in a
volume of whole blood. Follow-up blood samples also were taken to track how
tracers, taken earlier in the flight, are being incorporated into the body.
Similar procedures will be done with several rats onboard. Principal
investigator is Dr. Clarence Alfrey of Baylor College of Medicine and the
Methodist Hospital in Houston.
A number of cardiovascular activities will be conducted today.
Echocardiograph measurements will be performed on Wolf, Lucid and Fettman. High
frequency sound waves sent into their bodies provide a picture of their
internal organs on a video screen. Scientists will use this information to
study how the enlarged heart adapts to the increased amount of fluid present in
the upper torso.
In another activity, heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac output (how
much blood is pumped by each heart beat) will be measured by Wolf, Lucid and
Fettman at rest and then by exercising at progressively higher stages of
exercise. Today is the first time the astronauts will exercise at 100 percent
of their maximum preflight heart rate. The experiment is designed to measure
how cardiovascular deconditioning occurs over the 14-day mission.
In the neuroscience area, astronauts will again use the rotating dome to
record eye and neck movements to determine how weightlessness affects the
sensory organs, as well as donning the Accelerometer Recording Unit to record
head movements.
Other activities include changing the rats' waste trays.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #15
5:30 p.m. CDT, Oct. 25, 1993
7/07:37 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew is winding up a busy day, designed to mirror
the last day of science gathering aboard the 1991 Spacelab Life Sciences 1
mission. Scientists believe the two flights together will paint a
comprehensive picture of how humans and animals adapt to the challenge of
weightlessness. Responses to experiments can vary slightly from one individual
to another. Therefore, results from a larger number of subjects give
scientists increased confidence in the accuracy of their conclusions.
The crew began with a series of metabolic tests to track the effects of
weightlessness on their kidney function, protein metabolism and red blood cell
production. In addition to collecting blood, saliva and urine samples, they
measured the blood pressure in veins near their skin surfaces.
Mission Specialists Shannon Lucid and Dave Wolf and Payload Specialist Marty
Fettman took video images of their heart size for the Cardiovascular Adaptation
to Zero-Gravity experiment as planned, and Pilot Rick Searfoss found time to
serve as an unscheduled subject of the test. Lucid used the primary Spacelab
echocardiograph for the first experiment run. After some data dropouts toward
the end of her session, the crew switched to the portable American Flight
Echocardiograph (AFE) for Wolf's turn at the experiment. The data produced by
both echocardiographs is comparable.
"As the person responsible for turning the AFE into flight equipment, you
should be very pleased to have it work so well," Alternate Payload Specialist
Dr. Larry Young told Wolf over air-to-ground communication loops. Wolf worked
on development of the flight equipment before he was selected as a NASA
astronaut.
Wolf, Fettman and Lucid collected more cardiovascular data by breathing and
exhaling various gas mixtures, first at rest and then during various exercise
levels. The rebreathing assembly, which had inflated unexpectedly the last
time the experiment was performed on Flight Day 4, operated flawlessly for all
three subjects.
In addition to exercising at 30 percent and 60 percent of capacity as they had
in previous experiment runs, they speeded up their bicycle pedaling for a few
minutes of 100 percent exercise. The percentages are based on the ability of
an individual's system to uptake oxygen. Maximum exercise is the point at
which, no matter how much the body exerts itself, it cannot assimilate any
additional oxygen.
The bicycle ergometer came loose from the floor attachment at higher exercise
levels. Crew members held it in place as the run finished, then Commander John
Blaha and Mission Specialists Bill McArthur put some wadding into the
attachment and strapped the ergometer down. They reported that the repair was
effective and the bike was more stable than before.
Seddon, Wolf and Fettman completed their mid-mission repeat of the rotating
dome experiment, and Blaha got in an unscheduled run. They stared at randomly
spaced dots on the turning dome to see how their senses of balance and
orientation are adapting after a week in weightlessness. Researchers tracked
how they perceived the rotation by observing their eye movements, neck
movements, and stresses on a board they bit into during some sessions. As they
adapt to weightlessness, astronauts tend to rely more heavily on visual cues
than on their gravity-sensing organs for a sense of orientation. During some
experiment runs, the astronauts were secured with bungee cords rather than
floating free, to see how perceptions differ when they could feel their feet
touching the floor.
The astronauts are getting some extra help with the dome experiment from an
expert system affectionately dubbed the "PI in a Box." It tracks the experiment
and guides the crew in its operation, just as the principal investigator would
if he were flying along with them.
Developed as a joint program by MIT and NASA's Ames Research Center, the expert
system was conceived by Alternate Payload Specialist Young, principal
investigator for the vestibular experiments, with Dr. Silvano Colombano of Ames
and Dr. Lyman Hazelton of MIT as co-developers.
This is the first use of a real-time expert system in space. The "PI in a
Box," which runs on a notebook computer, was checked out on Spacelab Life
Sciences 1 when the rotating dome flew as a reserve experiment. Its initial
success paves the way for better interactive science on future flights,
especially on long missions like those anticipated for the space station.
Seddon wore the Acceleration Recording Unit cap as she went about her duties
early in the day, to accumulate more information on the relationship of random
head movements to periods of discomfort. Fettman completed the daily check of
the rodents' food consumption around mid-afternoon.
The crew is scheduled for some well-earned sleep at 8:08 p.m., and Tuesday's
wake-up call again is set for 4:08 a.m.
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| 851.91 | something reversed in the KEP set? from .84 | TFH::PARTAIN | Set/mode=BASS_FISHIN | Tue Oct 26 1993 15:19 | 14 |
|
re. .84 (element set)
Is the "Arg of perigee " 16.4294
an the "Mean Anomaly" 343.6980
reversed?
My TRAKSAT program got "wierd"...I reversed them it looks much better
but I don't know if it's correct now..
-chuck
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| 851.92 | PC Program called "Birds" takes element sets nicely... | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | I Really Haven't Got The Time | Tue Oct 26 1993 15:56 | 27 |
| Speaking of Kep sets causing wierd things....
My Dad has an IBM PC which a few years back he installed a
program called "Birds". It basically is a program that takes
a set of orbital elements for a satellite and based on the users
actual earth coordinates and elevation print out data for when a
satellite would be visible at dawn or evening dusk. Just for grins
I gave him the element set from the 17th orbit this past weeekend.
We came up with a few possible days when STS-58 might be visible
in this area in the morning sky roughly between 6-7 am. The 30th,
31st, and Nov 1st I think all have a shot at seeing the shuttle
at an elevation in the southeast-south sky or about 25-35 degrees
for a couple of minutes or so from the east Mass. area. The caveat
is a good clear southerly view is needed. The views are quite brief
because of the orbit track inclination of 39 degrees requiring that
it track just about due south of here on its most northern inclination.
The occurences of this and a dusk period are very few. But the one
thing I was curious about is whether the element set would be taken
by his program. Unfortunately his program does not plot a ground
track on a generated map, or anything quite as good as that. It just
generates a tabular listing of each orbit path relative to the users
home location and possible occurences of viewing. It does however
print out in this tabular form each node of ascension. One could
with a little work plot a ground track on a physical map. I sounds like
the program indicated in -1 does this. I might be interested in knowing
more about this program called "TRAKSAT".
Bob
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| 851.93 | Just my opinion.... | DEMING::TADRY | Ray Tadry 225-5691 | Tue Oct 26 1993 16:52 | 11 |
| Easy Dave, never said I was looking for a Buck Rogers movie, my point
was that single shift coverage on a 2 weeks flight seems to waste
lot of time. I also thought that alot of whats been done could have
been performed on other, or future flights, with "paying cargo".
The effects of 0-G on human physiology has been evaluated on most
flights, if not all. Thats great, it is needed for long duration
space flight, gee, maybe we could buy some info from Russia. They
are the leaders in long term space flight. I guess I just see the
ROI on this 2 week flight much lower that previous and I guess I'm
just in a cost conscience mood. I know science is exciting...thats
why I'm in the semiconductor biz....
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| 851.94 | | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Oct 26 1993 17:34 | 39 |
| Sorry if I misinterpreted... Statements like "How about a spacewalk" and
"this mission seems very unexciting" implied to me that you weren't focusing
on the relative cost/benefits of the mission vs. how boring it was to read
about. My error.
As to the cost/benefit of this 2 wk flight, you have some valid points. I've
had similar thoughts myself, but if you care to believe the public relations
comments that flow forth from NASA on these issues, the point is made that
not only are they redoing experiments and changing small factors (as noted
earlier), but they are using instrumentation and methods which will allow for
a generous increase in the value of the data that they are giving. [This
comment is often made in reference to "getting data from the Russians". For
all I know it is a pile of baloney, but I suppose it is possible that we
are currently flying sufficiently better equipment over the next two weeks
that provides higher resolution data compared to a year's worth of
Mir data. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but a few of the shuttle
astronauts are "real" doctors/veterinarians. Placing these specialists
"in situ" for a couple of weeks may have additional benefits over the
cosmonauts that fly for many months. This could also be hot air...]
So is it worth it? I'll probably never know -- it is interesting to watch
though.
As far as it being a single shift, I often feel similar. When a shuttle is
in orbit, I'd prefer to see it used 24 hrs/day. The resource is just to
valuable to have "sitting idle" (no matter how much I thrill at the earth
views the INCO gives us from the payload bay during this idle time!!).
However, for this mission the astronauts are both the scientists and the
subjects of experiments. They do need time to sleep and the shuttle is
a really lousy place to get some "quality shut-eye". 14 days at 24 hrs/day
and the rats will be running the place in no time. Personally, I wouldn't
want to be on the crew that has to work on Columbia's insides when this
mission gets back: 14 days, 7 people, physical tests, no showers, sits at
Edwards for a few days.... Wheew!
- dave
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| 851.95 | | AUSSIE::GARSON | Hotel Garson: No Vacancies | Wed Oct 27 1993 02:35 | 30 |
| re .93
>my point was that single shift coverage on a 2 weeks flight seems to waste
>lot of time.
As Dave said, since the humans *are* the experiment, 2 shifts wouldn't
be of benefit.
>I also thought that alot of whats been done could have been performed on other
>or future flights, with "paying cargo".
I suspect that the cargo bay is full. With Spacelab and the extra
supplies for the EDO (Extended Duration Orbiter) there is probably not
room for something to deploy (or whatever) in order to share the cost.
'Twould be nice though.
Just my opinion but I think the Shuttle system is better utilised in
this way as a research platform (albeit limited to around two weeks at
a time) than as a launch vehicle (e.g. for satellites and deep space
probes).
> maybe we could buy some info from Russia. They are the leaders in long
> term space flight.
Certainly. They have experience of durations that we can only dream
about. However reading between the lines from some of their reports I
don't think they have actually solved the problems. I recall their
having to reduce progressively the daily workload of the cosmonauts.
This is nevertheless an area where it may be cost effective and
mutually beneficial to engage in a joint research effort.
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| 851.96 | Accuracy of KEPS in .84 | MEOC02::VIETH | | Wed Oct 27 1993 03:53 | 20 |
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re. .91
Chuck,
I beleive the element set in .84 is correct because I used them last
night to make contact with Martin KC5AXA on board STS-58. They came over the
horizon at the correct time and I had a good signal, so the antenna was
pointing the correct direction.
I asked Martin about the rotating dome experiment and if anyone got
nauseous or sick. He said, "The results were just about the same as on
earth with the dome and the chair experiment", and "We have the healthest crew
ever", or words similar to that.
-Roy VK3TMJ
Geelong Australia
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| 851.97 | MCC Status Reports #15-17; SLS-2 Status Reports #16,17 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 27 1993 14:00 | 350 |
| MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #14
Monday, October 25, 1993, 6 p.m. CDT
After passing the midway point of its 14-day Spacelab Life Sciences 2 mission,
the crew of Columbia continued to gather data on how the human body adapts to
near weightlessness, focusing on its metabolic, neurovestibular and
cardiovascular systems.
Columbia continued to provide a trouble-free orbiting laboratory for the
biomedical investigations, with virtually all of its systems working properly.
Commander John Blaha did reconfigure equipment in a Spacelab module wall unit
to eliminate a high-pitched beeping noise in the wireless headsets the
astronauts use to communicate with the ground. He also reseated a loose
indicator light bulb on the carbon-dioxide system control panel, and that
system continues to operate normally. Blaha also shot scenes for an
educational video program.
Mission Specialists Bill McArthur and David Wolf were joined by Pilot Rick
Searfoss for a 15-minute live radio interview with WCBS in New York.
A couple of activities that had been planned for Searfoss -- checking the
batteries on the space suits that would be used in any unscheduled space walk,
and taking readings on the cabin and Spacelab module noise levels -- were
postponed to smooth out the timeline.
Following a maneuver to make possible an additional Kennedy Space Center
landing opportunity two days after next Monday's planned landing, Columbia is
in a 154 by 140 nautical mile orbit, circling the Earth every 90 minutes.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #15
Tuesday, October 26, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Well past the midway mark of what is expected to be a shuttle record two-week
biomedical research flight, Columbia's astronauts were awakened at 4:08 AM
Central time to the sounds of "Happy Trails" to begin their ninth day in orbit.
Flight controllers sent the wake-up call to the astronauts after an uneventful
eight-hour sleep period to start another day of experiments in the Spacelab
science module nestled in Columbia's open cargo bay.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and crewmates David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and
veterinarian Marty Fettman, the payload specialist on board, will spend most of
the day today conducting a second series of metabolic tests on some of the 48
rodents housed in cages in the Spacelab workshop. The rodents will have blood
drawn after they are transferred from their cages to an enclosed work station
before the astronauts inject them with a red blood cell stimulant to measure
how the production of red blood cells is affected by microgravity. The
orbiting researchers are trying to determine how prolonged exposure to
microgravity affects the rodents' ability to produce red blood cells. Other
metabolic tests were performed on the animals on Saturday. The rodents are
reported to be in excellent condition.
While scientific activity continues in the Spacelab, Commander John Blaha,
Pilot Rick Searfoss and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur will perform other
experiments and chores in the orbiter, including another run in the Lower Body
Negative Pressure device, a sack-like instrument. After astronauts climb into
the LBNP, fluids which have pooled in the upper region of the body in the
absence of gravity are pulled back to the lower extremeties of the body. LBNP
is used to offset the sensations of readaptation to gravity which some
astronauts experience after they return to Earth.
Yesterday, Commander Blaha recommended that his runs in the LBNP be deleted
because the equipment felt somewhat uncomfortable to him. Since Blaha's
participation was optional and elective, his request will have no impact on the
data being gathered for the Spacelab Life Sciences mission. Searfoss and
McArthur will continue their regular runs in the LBNP.
This morning, Blaha will have a chance to use Columbia's ham radio equipment to
try to communicate with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Serebrov and Vasily
Tsiblyev (Sih'-blee- ehv) as they orbit the Earth aboard the Mir Space Station.
Columbia and Mir will pass within about 84 miles of each other as the ham radio
contact is attempted at 11:16 AM Central time. Other ham radio contacts will
be attempted with operators in France and Hawaii.
Columbia is currently travelling in an orbit about 162 miles above the Earth
with all of its systems in good shape.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #16
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 26, 1993
7/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew members were greeted by a familiar voice
this morning as they began their ninth day of science activities when SLS-1
Alternate Payload Specialist Bob Phillips congratulated the crew on a smooth
mission.
Phillips was SLS-2 Payload Specialist Martin Fettman's doctorial advisor
and encouraged Fettman to apply for his current position on the STS-58 crew.
Tuesday's main science activity is the continuation of a hematology study
that focuses on red blood cell production in space. The four payload crew
members -- Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialists David Wolf and
Shannon Lucid, and Fettman -- will inject an iron tracer and the hormone
erythropoietin into several rodents. Erythropoietin stimulates red blood cell
production.
In this particular investigation, scientists are hoping the hormone will
cause the rats onboard Columbia to maximize red blood cell production. This
may be a potential countermeasure to correct spaceflight anemia, a condition
where the number of red blood cells decreases below normal in the circulating
blood stream. Spaceflight anemia has been documented in returning astronauts
since the Apollo program. This research also could have long-range effects in
the study of leukemia, chronic kidney failure and auto-immune diseases.
Scientists also hope to pinpoint the exact mechanisms that lead to these
changes in red blood cell production.
Ten rats will be used in today's study. Astronauts will draw a baseline
blood sample from each of the rat's tail vein before injecting the isotope Iron
59 and the hormone erythropoietin. The iron tracer will tag the red blood
cells as they are produced in the bone marrow to see if the hormone is
stimulating the production of additional red blood cells. Follow-up blood
draws will be taken 24 hours after the tracer and hormone injections. If crew
members have time, they will "weigh" the rats being used in today's hematology
study using the Small Mass Measuring Instrument.
Scientists hope to prove that the changes in red blood cell production
taking place in the rats is comparable to that occurring in humans. This
activity supports two investigations developed by Dr. Albert Ichiki of the
University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville and Dr. Clarence Alfrey of
Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Also today, Wolf, Lucid and Fettman will serve as subjects of the
"Awareness of Position Experiment." SLS-2 is providing an excellect opportunity
to remove the force of gravity and watch how the human body compensates for the
loss of its sensory mechanisms that are activated by the pull of gravity. In
this spatial orientation test, the astronauts will look at various targets on a
reference screen. First, with their eyes open, the astronaut will
point to a target with a light pointer. Then, with eyes closed,
they will attempt to repeat the movement. A video recording will
note accuracy and subtle body position changes taking place when the eyes are
closed. This experiment is part of the vestibular
experiment series by Dr. Laurence Young of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Cambridge.
Additional leg volume measurements were added to today's schedule during
the overnight replanning session. An additional day of leg volume measurements
using a Thornton stocking will be gathered on Wolf, Lucid and Fettman. This
will provide a total of four days of data takes, thus increasing the validity
of the statistical sampling. The full-length stocking measures the girth of a
leg to determine how much blood/plasma has shifted into the upper torso.
Principal Investigator is Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist of the University of Texas
Health Science Center in Dallas.
Crew members also turned on the Gas Analyser Mass Spectrometer this
morning in hopes of having time to perform additional tests for the lung
function investigation. The reserve experiment studies how respiration, lung
circulation and gas exchange are affected by weightlessness. The
self-administered test will be performed by the crew as time permits. The
astronauts will breathe into a Rebreathing Assembly instrument. The inhaled
and exhaled gases are analyzed by a GAMS which measures oxygen, nitrogen,
argon, helium, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The experiment sponsored by
Dr. John West of the University of California at San Diego will help scientists
compare lung function in microgravity and its dimished capability upon return
to Earth.
All Spacelab and experiment equipment continues to perform as
expected. There are no anomalies being tracked by the payload
operations team at this time.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #17
5:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 26, 1993
8/07:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
An experiment to help pinpoint the causes of space flight anemia, the decline
in red blood cells seen in weightlessness, was the focus aboard Spacelab Life
Sciences 1 on its ninth day in orbit.
For today's experiment, science crew members worked with 10 of the 48 rats
aboard the Spacelab. After taking baseline blood samples from the rats, the
crew injected the animals with an iron tracer to track red blood cell
production. Five of the rats also were injected with the hormone
erythropoietin, which stimulates the production of red blood cells. The
remaining rodents, a control group, were injected with a saline solution. The
work was completed about an hour and a half ahead of schedule. Follow-up blood
samples will be taken tomorrow to be analyzed post-flight to identify any
changes in the animals' red blood cell mass.
Biological tracers also have been used to track the astronauts' production of
red blood cells during the mission. However, the crew will not receive
erythropoietin injections.
Flight surgeons have observed anemia, a reduced level of oxygen-carrying red
blood cells, in returning astronauts since the Apollo program. More recently,
they have detected a decrease of erythropoietin in astronauts' blood.
Erythropoietin, produced by the kidneys, is the hormone which triggers the
production of young red blood cells in the bone marrow. When the body senses
it needs more red blood cells, the kidneys increase their production of the
hormone. If the body senses the opposite, the amount of the hormone is
decreased and fewer young cells are turned into red blood cells.
An increase in the rats' red blood count after the injections would suggest
space flight anemia could be caused by lowered erythropoietin levels, according
to Dr. Clarence Alfrey, principal investigator for one of the two experiments
which are sharing the data. If not, other factors could be involved which will
require further study.
The SLS-2 animal experiments are sponsored by NASA's Ames Research Center in
California. "The Ames people have done an outstanding job of putting together
kits so we can do real laboratory work in space," said Mission Specialist
Shannon Lucid. "There's not a thing I would do to improve them." Lucid did the
same type of experiments in her daily laboratory work in Oklahoma before she
was selected as a NASA astronaut.
Lucid, Mission Specialist Dave Wolf and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman
completed planned sessions of the "Awareness of Position Experiment," and
Commander John Blaha and Payload Commander Rhea Seddon volunteered for
additional runs. All five had participated in the test when it was first
conducted on Flight Day 3. Blaha commented that the accuracy of his sense of
position today seemed to be related to how his head sagged up and down, saying
he was looking forward to the conclusions Dr. Doug Watt and other members of
the vestibular team would reach about the effect of weightlessness on the
astronauts' sense of orientation.
Having finished all scheduled work early, the crew used the spare time for
gathering additional information with other experiments. Seddon and McArthur
tested the effects of weightlessness on their lungs in unscheduled runs of the
reserve Pulmonary Function in Weightlessness investigation. The experiment
team at the Johnson Space Center's Science Monitoring Area said they were
delighted with the additional data.
Extra leg volume measurements for three payload crew members this morning will
provide information about how fluids redistribute in the body after a week in
weightlessness.
Crew sleep time will begin at 8:08 p.m. today. The astronauts are scheduled to
wake up eight hours later, at 4:08 a.m.
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STS-58 Status Report #16
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Tuesday, October 26, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
As the STS-58 crew concentrated again on metabolic tests with Columbia's 48
rodent passengers, the shuttle continued to provide a stable platform for the
Spacelab Life Sciences 2 investigations.
The payload crew collected data on how mammals adapt to microgravity, and the
orbiter crew took readings of the acoustic noise inside the shuttle crew cabin
and the Spacelab module. One of the objectives of SLS-2 is to help improve the
productivity of humans as they work in orbit for increasingly longer periods of
time. The complementary readings will help characterize more accurately the
level of noise generated by the shuttle and experiment equipment.
Mission Specialist Bill McArthur was the subject of another run in the Lower
Body Negative Pressure device, a sack-like instrument that helps pull body
fluids back into the lower body. The LBNP treatments are designed to condition
the astronaut's bodies for the return to Earth's gravity, when the sudden
downward shifting of fluids can make astronauts lightheaded.
Commander John Blaha took a turn with Columbia's ham radio equipment, making
contact with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov, the flight engineer on the
Mir space station, as the two space vehicle passed within 84 miles of each
other. In a later contact, Payload Commander Rhea Seddon talked with students
at St. Barnabas Episcopal School in Houston, where one of her two sons, Paul,
attends classes. Seddon also said hello to former Sen. Jake Garn, who was
visiting Mission Control. Seddon and Garn flew together on STS-51D in April
1985.
Pilot Rick Searfoss reported that he, Blaha and Payload Specialist Marty
Fettman had completed videotaping scenes for an educational program to motivate
students toward careers in science, engineering and mathematics.
In the area of housekeeping, Searfoss recharged the batteries on the
extravehicular mobility units that would be used in any unplanned space walk.
Blaha began a dump of the condensate tank, which collects atmospheric moisture
from the Spacelab module and vents it overboard through a nozzle on the forward
section of the lab.
The crew was preparing to begin its eight-hour sleep shift at 8:08 p.m. CDT.
Columbia continued to circle the early every 90 minutes in a 154 by 140
nautical mile orbit.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #17
Wednesday, October 27, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Columbia's astronauts were awakened by flight controllers at 4:08 AM Central
time today to Joe Walsh's rendition of "Look At Us Now", as the crew began its
10th day of biomedical research in support of the Spacelab Life Sciences 2
mission.
Following an in-flight news conference with reporters at the Johnson Space
Center and the Kennedy Space Center, the astronauts will begin another day of
experiments involving the study of the body's reaction to prolonged
weightlessness.
The experiments will focus on the human vestibular system and the metabolic
system of 48 rodents being housed in special cages in the Spacelab science
module in Columbia's cargo bay.
Mission Specialists Bill McArthur and David Wolf and payload specialist Marty
Fettman will take turns being spun around in a rotating chair in the Spacelab,
testing how the brain, the eye and the inner ear try to compensate for the
absence of gravity.
Several hours will be spent collecting more blood samples from some of the
rodents on board Columbia as Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Shannon Lucid, Wolf
and Fettman continue their study of the effect of long stints of microgravity
on the animals' ability to produce red blood cells.
Later today, Seddon and Fettman will begin to prepare some of the equipment
which they will use Saturday to euthanize and dissect five or six of the
rodents --- the first time that type of research will be attempted in orbit.
Tissue samples and otolith organs will be placed in a fixative solution and
returned to Earth for analysis by researchers and veterinarians to see how 14
days of weightlessness affected the rodents' muscles and bones as well as their
neurovestibular and cardiovascular systems.
Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and McArthur will keep an eye on
Columbia's systems throughout the day, cleaning orbiter and Spacelab filters
and checking the health of the shuttle's refrigerator-freezers in which blood,
urine and saliva samples are being preserved.
Searfoss will again put Columbia through a series of maneuvers to test
acceleration levels on the orbiter. That information will be useful to
officials planning future Spacelab microgravity research flights in which
experiments will need a quiet, motion-free environment to produce the highest
quality data possible. The astronauts will also engage in normal daily
exercise on the shuttle's bicycle machine and attempt more contacts with
amateur radio operators on Earth through the use of Columbia's ham radio gear.
In the morning messages uplinked to Columbia, flight controllers informed the
astronauts that the veteran shuttle is in excellent shape, flying smoothly on
in what was described as the most trouble-free Spacelab mission since the first
such flight in 1983.
Columbia is orbiting the Earth every ninety minutes at an altitude of about 163
miles.
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| 851.98 | STS-58 element set GSFC-025 (orbit 113) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Wed Oct 27 1993 14:01 | 80 |
|
STS-58
1 22869U 93065A 93298.61712570 0.00112657 77536-5 20892-3 0 259
2 22869 39.0200 82.4277 0014476 28.5134 331.6466 16.00068904 1136
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 22869
Epoch time: 93298.61712570 (25 OCT 93 14:48:39.66 UTC)
Element set: GSFC-025
Inclination: 39.0200 deg
RA of node: 82.4277 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: 0.0014476 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 28.5134 deg
Mean anomaly: 331.6466 deg
Mean motion: 16.00068904 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6652.3600 Km
Decay rate: 0.11E-02 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 283.60 Km
Epoch rev: 113 Perigee Alt: 264.34 Km
NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 025.
The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
R.A. Parise, Goddard Space Flight Center
G.L.CARMAN
STS-58
FLIGHT DAY 9 STATE VECTOR
ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
(Posted 10/26/93 by Roger Simpson)
The following vector for the flight of STS-58 is provided by NASA Johnson
Space Center, Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in ground track
plotting programs. The vector represents the trajectory of Columbia
during on orbit operations.
Lift off Time : 1993/291/14:53:09.974
Lift off Date : 10/18/93
Vector Time (GMT) : 299/16:00:00.00
Vector Time (MET) : 008/01:06:50.030
Orbit Count : 129
Weight : 240518.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 4000.0 SQ FT
M50 Elements Keplerian Elements
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X = 17195534.0 FT A = 3591.6095 NM
Y = 4991833.5 FT E = 0.001684
Z = -12499423.7 FT I (M50) = 39.24535 DEG
Xdot = -2129.976708 FT/S Wp (M50) = 47.08802 DEG
Ydot = 24343.583090 FT/S RAAN (M50) = 74.89779 DEG
Zdot = 6861.078488 FT/S / N (True) = 248.11771 DEG
Anomalies \ M (Mean) = 248.29684 DEG
Ha = 153.167 NM
Hp = 140.191 NM
Mean of 1950 (M50) : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System origin is the center of the earth. The epoch
is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A: Semi-major axis
E: Eccentricity N: True anomaly
I: Inclination M: Mean anomaly
Wp: Argument of perigee Ha: Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node Hp: Height of perigee
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| 851.99 | MCC Status Report #18; SLS-2 Status Reports #18,19 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 28 1993 12:03 | 176 |
| SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #18
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 27, 1993
8/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The life science research data being collected onboard Spacelab Life
Sciences 2 "will be used by scientists throughout the world, coupled with data
gathered in ground laboratories, to better understand human physiology. They
will be able to provide better health care for 5 billion human beings on Planet
Earth," Commander John Blaha said during this morning's press conference.
SLS-2 provides a full set of human physiology data on one group of people
giving an integrated, complete picture of human physiology systems -- compared
to data gathered on single individuals -- thus better validating research
findings, Mission Specialist David Wolf commented.
Follow-up blood draws will be taken today to determine if the hormone
erthropoietin stimulated red blood cell production in the rats injected
yesterday with the hormone and an iron tracer. Scientists hope that the
hormone injection may prove to be an effective countermeasure to spaceflight
anemia, a condition where the number of red blood cells decreases below the
normal levels in the blood. The blood sample, taken from each of the rat's
tail veins, will be drawn by Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialists
Wolf and Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman.
Other SLS-2 experiments involving the rats include a calcium study to
determine the effects of weightlessness on bones by Dr. Emily Morey-Holton of
NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Also, on-orbit samples will
be collected on Flight Day 13 to support the investigations of Dr. Muriel Ross
of Ames Research Center and Dr. D.A. Riley of Medical College of Wisconsin in
Milwaukee.
The final SLS-2 rodent investigation, scheduled for post-flight, is by Dr.
Kenneth Baldwin of the University of California College of Medicine at Irvine.
The effects of weightlessness on the back leg muscles of the rats will be
analyzed by observing how those muscles use oxygen to convert nutrients into
energy and by studying the role glycogen plays in the loss of muscle mass and
muscle strength. There are no in-flight activities scheduled for this
experiment.
Later today, Seddon, Wolf and Fettman will each take a turn in the
rotating chair. The test requires the crew member to wear goggles (to avoid
distraction and visual cues), and an Accelerometer Recording Unit,
Electromyogram amplifier and electrodes to record head and eye movements. The
test begins when the subject is rotated in the chair and then stopped. In one
phase the subject will remain upright, while in another he/she will pitch
his/her head forward. Involuntary eye movements will be measured during both
procedures. This investigation assesses how weightlessness affects the signals
being sent to the brain from the gravity-sensing otolith organs and
semicircular canals in the inner ear and also how the brain resolves
conflicting signals from different parts of the vestibular system. Lucid will
again wear the Accelerometer Recording Unit headgear to measure head movements
as part of the neuroscience research. These two experiments are sponsored by
Dr. Laurence Young of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
If time permits, the crew may perform additional unscheduled tests
designed to measure lung function in space. The Gas Analyser Mass
Spectrometer, which measures various exhaled gases, was again
turned on this morning.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #19
4:30 p.m. CDT, Oct. 27, 1993
9/06:37 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew took final in-flight blood samples for the
rodent hematology experiments and completed the mission's second set of
rotating chair sessions during their tenth day in space.
Payload Specialist Marty Fettman, Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission
Specialist Dave Wolf and Commander John Blaha took turns in the chair as
crewmates rotated it manually, then brought it to a sudden stop. A cap fitted
with accelerometers measured their head and neck movements, while small
electrodes tracked involuntary eye movements in response to the rotation and
deceleration.
When a person spins around on Earth, his or her eyes tend to move the opposite
way to stabilize the picture, and then snap quickly ahead in a repeating
pattern. After about 20 seconds of constant speed, though, both the eye
movements and the sensation of spinning stop. When the actual rotation ceases,
the motion-sensing organs signal the brain that the person is turning in the
opposite direction, and eye movements reflect that change. However, if the
individual suddenly leans forward, gravity sensors overrule the false
perception of motion.
The rotating chair experiment, designed by Dr. Charles Oman of MIT, tracks how
long it takes for the spinning sensation during rotation to stop in
weightlessness. It also tests whether forward head movement, called dumping,
continues to cancel out the false sensation of movement after the chair stops.
The investigators theorize that dumping would have less effect as astronauts'
bodies adjust to weightlessness and give up searching for signals from their
gravity sensors.
The experiment team was not surprised when Seddon reported she continued to
feel a rolling sensation after she dropped her head forward. She also
commented that her "sense of down had completely gone away" by today's
experiment run. Seddon, Fettman and Wolf also participated in the first
rotating chair session on Flight Day 4, and scientists look forward to
comparing complete data on both in-flight sessions with results from similar
exercises before and after the flight.
Seddon, Fettman, Wolf and Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid took follow-up blood
samples from the rats involved in yesterday's test of red-blood-cell production
in weightlessness. They also measured the rats' body mass for comparison with
measurements made on Flight Day 6, as well as pre- and post-flight weigh-ins.
Five animals had been injected with erythropoietin, a hormone which stimulates
production of the red blood cells. A control group had been injected with a
saline solution. Post-flight analysis of today's samples will help scientists
determine whether the hormone successfully boosted red blood cell mass in the
test rats.
Lucid and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur made the daily health and fitness
check of all 48 rodents. They collected waste samples for the last time in
support of the animal calcium metabolism study. Fettman and Seddon are
finishing up their work day preparing equipment for rodent sample collections
scheduled for Saturday.
Wolf and Lucid found time for sessions with the Pulmonary Function in
Weightlessness experiment. The lung function test is flying as a reserve
experiment on SLS-2, to be performed only as time is available. The crew has
been able to fit in numerous experiment runs over the past week, thanks to
their efficiency in keeping pace with their schedule and to the smooth
operation of the Spacelab equipment.
The crew is scheduled to go to sleep at 8:08 p.m. today. They are set to wake
up at 4:08 a.m. Thursday to begin their second morning of free time scheduled
during the mission.
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STS-58 Status Report #18
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Wednesday, October 27, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
Pilot Rick Searfoss put the Space Shuttle Columbia through some maneuvers
Wednesday afternoon as part of the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment.
The main goal of the experiment is to accurately measure the aerodynamic forces
that act on the shuttle in orbit and during the early stages of entry. The
information will be useful to scientists and engineers planning future Spacelab
microgravity research flights in which experiments will need a quiet, motion-
free environment to produce the best possible data.
Starting with the shuttle's payload bay facing the Earth and its nose pointing
in the direction of travel, he initiated the pitch, yaw, roll portion of the
test. In those maneuvers, the orbiter's thrusters turned it end over end 360
degrees, then in a flat spin for 360 degrees and rolled it 360 degrees over a
period of about 20 minutes.
Then, Searfoss began the pitch drag test, in which -- starting from the same
set- up position -- he pointed the orbiter's nose down 20 degrees and then
waited for drag from the extremely thin atmosphere at 150 nautical miles to
pull the nose down so that it was pointing directly at the Earth in what is
called a gravity gradient attitude. The "GG" attitude minimized the amount of
thruster firings needed to keep the shuttle in a stable attitude.
Similar tests were conducted on STS-40 in June 1991, and on STS-50 in June of
last year.
Today's Spacelab Life Sciences-2 experiments focused on the human vestibular
system and the metabolic system of 48 rodents being housed in special cages in
the Spacelab science module in Columbia's cargo bay.
As Columbia orbited 155 nautical miles above the Earth, payload bay cameras
also recorded images of the smoke pall created by large brush fires in southern
California.
All systems continued to function well on the shuttle as the crew prepared to
begin its sleep shift at 8:08 p.m. CDT.
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| 851.100 | STS-58 element set GSFC-031 (orbit 138) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Thu Oct 28 1993 12:04 | 84 |
|
STS-58
1 22869U 93065A 93300.17699070 0.00133671 99048-5 24183-3 0 318
2 22869 39.0252 71.9896 0012817 34.2105 325.9529 16.00500857 1383
Satellite: STS-58
Catalog number: 22869
Epoch time: 93300.17699070 (27 OCT 93 04:14:51.** UTC)
Element set: GSFC-031
Inclination: 39.0252 deg
RA of node: 71.9896 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
Eccentricity: 0.0012817 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 34.2105 deg
Mean anomaly: 325.9529 deg
Mean motion: 16.00500857 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6651.1630 Km
Decay rate: 0.13E-02 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 281.30 Km
Epoch rev: 138 Perigee Alt: 264.25 Km
NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 031.
The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
R.A. Parise, Goddard Space Flight Center
G.L.CARMAN
STS-58
FLIGHT DAY 9 STATE VECTOR
ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
(Posted 10/26/93 by Roger Simpson)
The following vector for the flight of STS-58 is provided by NASA Johnson
Space Center, Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in ground track
plotting programs. The vector represents the trajectory of Columbia
during on orbit operations.
Lift off Time : 1993/291/14:53:09.974
Lift off Date : 10/18/93
Vector Time (GMT) : 299/16:00:00.00
Vector Time (MET) : 008/01:06:50.030
Orbit Count : 129
Weight : 240518.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 4000.0 SQ FT
M50 Elements Keplerian Elements
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X = 17195534.0 FT A = 3591.6095 NM
Y = 4991833.5 FT E = 0.001684
Z = -12499423.7 FT I (M50) = 39.24535 DEG
Xdot = -2129.976708 FT/S Wp (M50) = 47.08802 DEG
Ydot = 24343.583090 FT/S RAAN (M50) = 74.89779 DEG
Zdot = 6861.078488 FT/S / N (True) = 248.11771 DEG
Anomalies \ M (Mean) = 248.29684 DEG
Ha = 153.167 NM
Hp = 140.191 NM
Mean of 1950 (M50) : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System origin is the center of the earth. The epoch
is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A: Semi-major axis
E: Eccentricity N: True anomaly
I: Inclination M: Mean anomaly
Wp: Argument of perigee Ha: Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node Hp: Height of perigee
Questions regarding these postings may be addressed to Roger Simpson,
Mail Code DM4, L. B. J. Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058,
Telephone (713) 483-1928.
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| 851.101 | RE 851.76 | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Thu Oct 28 1993 17:40 | 48 |
| From: US1RMC::"VOLCANO%ASUACAD.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU" "VOLCANO" 25-OCT-1993
To: Multiple recipients of list VOLCANO <VOLCANO%ASUACAD.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU>
CC:
Subj: Photography during Shuttle mission
Our office has received many, many requests for photography of
specific areas from the Space Shuttle during the on-going mission.
All requests have been folded into our real-time mission planning, and
will be considered against daily ground tracks, cloud cover and
mission timelines. We will not know what was actually photographed
until the Shuttle lands early next week. After landing, it will take
some time to screen the film for specific targets.
The Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project (SSEOP) maintains an
on-line database of descriptions of almost all of the photography
acquired from U.S. human-tended spacecraft -- about 200,000 images
from around the world. In many regions, the coverage is quite good,
and we invite all to log in and browse for their own regions of
interest. The database is menu-driven. Here's how to access it:
Through Internet, type TELNET SSEOP.JSC.NASA.GOV At the username and
password prompts, type PHOTOS
We maintain another account with a sampling of photographs which have
been digitized and are available for downloading. The
username/password are ANONYMOUS and GUEST.The account can be accessed
through FTP.
The photography is available for purchase from the EROS Data Center
(605)594-6151 and Technology Applications Center (505) 277-3622. The
cost for the photography is dependent on format (slide, print size),
but it is minimal. The above organizations have complete price listings.
When we have had a chance to screen the film from STS-58, I will post
a "quick-look" listing of significant photos and specific sites.
Thanks for your interest.
Cindy Evans
Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project
evans@sn3.jsc.nasa.gov
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| 851.102 | MCC Status Reports #19-22 ; SLS-2 Status Reports #20-23 (Thursday/Friday) | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Nov 01 1993 13:39 | 501 |
| STS-58 Status Report #19
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Thursday, October 28, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Columbia's astronauts got a chance to sleep a little later than usual Thursday
before beginning their 11th day of biomedical research in the shuttle's
Spacelab science module.
The additional sleep was granted by flight controllers because the astronauts'
schedule called for the seven crewmembers to take a break in their research
work for about four hours of "off-duty time". That free time enabled the
astronauts to relax a bit before pressing on with the final phase of the
medical investigations they are performing in what is expected to be a
shuttle-record two-week mission.
This is the second block of free time for the astronauts during the mission to
keep them well- rested as they perform experiments on themselves and each
other.
This afternoon, the astronauts will resume an abbreviated work schedule in the
Spacelab workshop. Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialists Bill
McArthur, David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman plan
to conduct several vestibular experiments, including one called the Drop, to
determine the effect of weightlessness on the nervous system and the muscles
and another called the Rotating Dome, to see how well the eyes follow the
motion of spinning dots in the absence of gravity and how well the brain
records that activity.
Commander John Blaha and Wolf plan to talk to students and officials at Purdue
University later today, using Columbia's on-board ham radio equipment. Blaha
and Wolf both graduated from Purdue. After his time off this morning, Pilot
Rick Searfoss will spend a few minutes firmly tying down the shuttle's exercise
bicycle in the Spacelab to make sure it is secure for Monday's scheduled return
to Earth. The bicycle worked itself loose from the Spacelab floor earlier this
week as the astronauts pedaled their way around the world.
Wolf and Fettman are to be interviewed later today by the Medical
Tribune/Medical World News to discuss their biomedical investigations over the
past week and a half.
Flight controllers informed the astronauts that a test to see how fast
cryogenic hydrogen boils off during a long duration mission has indicated that
consumables aboard Columbia are being used at a lower rate than had been
expected. The information will help engineers plan the use of on-board
consumables for even longer missions in the future.
All of Columbia's systems are in excellent shape as the orbiter circles the
Earth every ninety minutes at an altitude of about 162 miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #20
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 28, 1993
9/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The STS-58 crew will have the morning off to rest and enjoy
being in space before resuming experiments on the eleventh day of
Spacelab Life Science 2.
The half-day off will allow investigators to receive the best
metabolic data possible to ensure valid post-flight comparisons by
keeping the crew from becoming stressed and fatigued. Payload
Specialist Rhea Seddon said during Wednesday's press conference
that the half-day off gives the crew a chance to relax and gather
their thoughts, catch up on things they may have missed and look
ahead to the remainder of the flight.
They will also have an opportunity to experience the grandeur
and beauty of spaceflight. The crew will get to view the Earth in
the day passes and the stars during the night passes, so they can
best articulate what it is like to be up in space when they return,
Mission Specialist Bill McArthur added.
Two neuroscience experiments, the rotating dome and drop test,
are scheduled for this afternoon. The series of six vestibular
experiments was designed by a team of medical researchers to
investigate the interaction of the human body's sensory mechanisms
without the use of gravity-detection sensors that are used on
Earth. Scientists want to study how the brain sorts out
conflicting information received from the various sensory organs in
microgravity. Both experiments study the balance mechanism in the
inner ear which is responsible for indicating orientation and
direction and velocity of movement on Earth. The rotating dome and
drop experiments will help scientists assess how people perceive
changes to their orientation and react to a sense of turning and
falling.
For the rotating dome experiment, Seddon, Mission Specialist
David Wolf and Payload Specialist Martin Fettman will each place
his/her head inside a dome covered with colored dots. As the dome
rotates each individual senses he/she is rotating in the opposite
direction much as in a wide field movie -- except that in space the
vestibular signals no longer indicate that they are really
stationary. Head motion, neck muscle activity, eye movements and
body positions are recorded. For some tests the subjects are only
loosely held in front of the dome and for others they are held to
the floor by stretched bungee cords to put pressure on their feet.
One unique aspect of the dome experiment is the use of a
"Principal Investigator in a Box," an on-board expert system
running on a notebook computer. This coaches the astronaut about
the schedule, data and trouble checking, if necessary, during
set-up and experiment operations, much as if the Principal
Investigator was really in space looking at the experiment.
For the drop experiment, Wolf, Fettman and Mission Specialist
Shannon Lucid will each be fitted in a harness with elastic bungee
cords attached to the Spacelab floor and hold onto a handle
attached to the ceiling. When the test starts and the handle is
released, each astronaut experiences a falling sensation as the
elastic cords pull him/her down with an acceleration of 1 g, 2/3 g
and finally 1/3 g. Electrodes will measure electrical activity of
the lower leg muscles, which are triggered to prepare for the
landing, determining the relationship between the sensory system
and muscle response.
"Only in space can we study the balance system without the
normal forces of gravity. By measuring how the rotating dome and
drop subjects differ in their responses from earlier in the mission
we will learn about how the human nervous system reorganizes itself
to deal with a totally unique environment. You only have to look
at the crew doing flips to see how successful this adaption has
been," said Dr. Larry Young of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, the Principal Investigator of the human
vestibular experiment. Dr. Young is also an Alternate Payload
Specialist for the SLS-2 mission and will be the Payload
Communicator with the crew again today.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #21
5:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 28, 1993
10/07:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
After a refreshing morning off, the Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew completed the
mission's last set of experiments to study the effects of weightlessness on
their senses of balance and orientation.
This mission, along with its 1991 precedessor, will furnish the most detailed
and interrelated measurements of how humans adapt to weightlessness since the
Skylab program in 1973 and 1974, and it will be the longest Space Shuttle
flight thus far. Two mornings of rest during the 14-day flight help ensure
that the absence of gravity is the only variable in the crews' physical
condition, rather than the stress and fatigue which could result from a tight
work schedule in an unfamiliar environment.
During the afternoon, the crew completed late-mission runs of the drop test and
the rotating dome experiment to find out how their motion-sensing vestibular
systems have adapted to almost two weeks away from gravity. The drop
experiment tests the reflex which signals the legs to brace and prepare for a
fall. The dome experiment evaluates the astronauts' sense of rotation as they
stare into a field of turning dots.
Early in flight, astronauts experience physical confusion due to conflicting
signals from their inner-ear motion sensors and their eyes. As they adapt to
weightlessness, their bodies begin to mistrust the motion sensors and rely more
completely on sight and touch for a sense of orientation.
The crew began ground-based versions of the six SLS-2 vestibular experiments
about five months before launch. The tests were conducted in orbit on the
first days of flight to pinpoint early changes, and they are repeated later in
the mission to track the crews' adapation to their new environment.
Ground-based sessions will be repeated during the astronauts' first week home
to see how they are readapting to gravity. Post-flight comparisons should give
investigators unique insights into the workings of the vestibular system.
SLS-2 is the fourth flight of the vestibular experiments, beginning with the
first Spacelab flight a decade ago. In addition to collecting more data on
more different individuals, investigators have used their experience to improve
their equipment and techniques.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid and Payload
Specialist Marty Fettman participated in the drop experiment as scheduled, and
Mission Specialist Bill McArthur and Commander John Blaha got in bonus
sessions. Seddon, Lucid and Mission Specialist Dave Wolf were the primary
subjects of the rotating dome experiment. Blaha sat in for an extra run, and
more crew members may take turns as the work day winds down. Throughout the
flight, the orbiter crew has volunteered to conduct and undergo many tests with
the payload crew, increasing the amount of biomedical research the mission has
accomplished.
Gen. Jeremiah Pearson, NASA Associate Administrator for the Office of Space
Flight, and Dr. Harry Holloway, Associate Administrator for Life and
Microgravity Sciences and Applications, visited the payload control team at
Spacelab Mission Operations Control in Huntsville this afternoon. After being
briefed on mission progress, Pearson and Holloway spoke to the crew in orbit,
complimenting them on their success thus far in the mission.
The crew's sleep time will move up to 7:23 p.m. tonight. They are set to wake
up at 3:23 a.m. Friday for the mission's last full day of human space
adaptation experiments.
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STS-58 Status Report #20
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Thursday, October 28, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
After enjoying a half a day off, the astronauts aboard Columbia continued to
collect scientific data on how humans and animals adapt to the absence of
Earth's gravity.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon sent down a special message to her husband,
Astronaut Office Chief Hoot Gibson at 4:1 p.m. CDT when she surpassed his
total of 632 hours, 56 minutes in space. "He's still a really good guy, I still
love him a lot, but I've got more hours in space than he does, so there!" she
teased. Seddon acknowledged, however, that he has more launches and landings,
having flown four times to her three.
Pilot Rick Searfoss took time out from snapping some infrared photography of
the wildfires burning in southern California to say that the crew's thoughts
are with the firefighters working to quell the flames and the residents whose
homes are being threatened. He said he hoped the fires would be brought under
control soon, and added that the photographs he was taking will be among some
4,000 frames that will be returned to Earth for meteorologists, geologists,
ecologists and archeologists to study after the flight.
Blaha and Mission Specialist David Wolf talked to students and officials at
their alma mater, Purdue University, using Columbia's on-board ham radio
equipment, and Wolf and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman discussed their
biomedical experiments with the Medical Tribune/Medical World News in an
air-to-ground interview.
Virtually all of Columbia's systems are working well as Columbia circled the
Earth every 90 minutes in a 153 by 138 nautical mile orbit, but a payload
recorder used to collect data on the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment
apparently has a broken tape. The OARE equipment has an alternative method of
capturing its data, so none was expected to be lost.
The crew planned to go to bed at 7:23 p.m. CDT, about 45 minutes earlier than
on previous days. The change is the beginning of an hour and a half schedule
shift designed to prepare the crew for landing at 9:06 a.m. CST Monday.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #21
Friday, October 29, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Columbia's seven astronauts were awakened by flight controllers this morning at
3:23 AM Central time to the sound of Bette Midler's "From A Distance" to begin
their 12th day of biomedical research in orbit.
It will be one of the busiest days for Columbia's scientist-astronauts as they
head into the final phase of their study of the body's reaction to prolonged
exposure to weightlessness.
The four payload crewmembers, Rhea Seddon, David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and Marty
Fettman will concentrate on final cardiovascular experiments, measuring the
size of their hearts, drawing blood samples from one another, testing blood
pressure and analyzing the flow of blood in the absence of gravity. The
astronauts also will record pulmonary data as they exercise on a bicycle
ergometer at various levels of exertion.
The orbiter crewmembers, Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and Flight
Engineer Bill McArthur will be busy as well as they look ahead to Monday's
scheduled landing at California's Edwards Air Force Base.
Blaha, Searfoss and McArthur will all take turns on a laptop computer nicknamed
PILOT for Portable In-Flight Landing Operations Trainer. The computer program
mimics the training the astronauts conduct in simulators for entry and landing.
PILOT has been successfully used on other days of the mission to sharpen
landing skills as entry day approaches. Blaha also will take a couple of hours
to review entry flight rules and other documents pertinent to landing.
Searfoss and McArthur will again work with the Lower Body Negative Pressure
device, the sack-like bag in which the astronauts try to pull body fluids back
to their lower extremeties which have pooled near the head in the microgravity
environment. LBNP is considered to be a possible method to offset the
lightheaded feeling some astronauts experience when they return to Earth.
McArthur also will conduct a routine daily check of the 48 rodents on board
Columbia's Spacelab science workshop.
Overnight, an alarm sounded in one of the cages housing the rodents in the
Spacelab, caused by one of the animals drinking more water than the automatic
system is designed to regulate in its automatic mode. The astronauts were not
disturbed by the alarm and reset it within minutes after they were awakened by
flight controllers. All of the rodents are reported to be in good condition.
Columbia is orbiting the Earth every ninety minutes at an altitude of about 162
miles with all of its systems in excellent shape.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #22
10:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 29, 1993
11/00:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew is well into their last full day of
experiments to determine how their own bodies have adapted to the
weightlessness of space.
This morning's metabolic tests are recording late-mission conditions of the
astronauts' body fluid and electrolyte levels, protein metabolism, red blood
cell production and calcium balance. Mission Specialist Shannon Lucid directed
injection and ingestion of several biological tracers and will collect blood
samples at specified times during the day.
Dr. Carolyn Leach of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Principal
Investigator of the "Fluid-Electrolyte Regulation During Space Flight
Experiment," will look at changes to hormones, kidney responses and the
circulatory system in weightlessness. A natural fluid shift occurs during the
first 24 hours away from gravity, when fluids which normally pool in the legs
rise to the head and torso. The body senses the extra fluid in the upper body
as excess fluid and goes about decreasing some volume. Tests early in the
mission evaluated initial responses to the resulting fluid loss. Today's
tests, along with those performed mid-mission, examine the specific mechanisms
the body uses to develop a new stable level in response to the fluid shifts.
Three crew members drank water containing Oxygen 18 to track the overall fluid
volume in their systems, then injected and ingested several other tracers for
Dr. Leach's experiment. Two tracers indicate how well their kidneys are
working to cleanse the blood, an iodine tracer tracks their plasma volume, and
a sulphur tracer evaluates fluid volume around the cells. To assure observed
changes are due to the weightlessness and not to nutritional status, the crew
has been logging their fluid intake and recording the food they eat with a
grocery-store-type scanner throughout the flight.
The "Protein Metabolism in Space Flight Experiment," provided by Dr. T. Peter
Stein of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, evaluates how
muscles synthesize and then break down in weightlessness by studying the body's
protein metabolism. Crew members took a nitrogen tracer to support the
experiment, which also uses data from the Oxygen 18 tracer.
Returning astronauts show a reduced level of body protein. Dr. Stein hopes to
determine whether muscles simply atrophy until they adapt to a new size, or if
the body perceives space as a stress and the protein loss is a response to that
stress. Data from SLS-1 suggests the loss is a general mobilizaton of the
body's resources as a stress response.
"If so, it is a response to stress without a specific injury, and our study has
a unique potential to answer important questions," said Dr. Stein. "Are
responses to stress preprogrammed in us, or do we learn and adapt? We don't
know yet how the body turns the stress response on and off." In space,
scientists can study the process in healthy individuals, without the
complications of an injury.
A third metabolic experiment addresses another common problem which occurs in
orbit -- a decrease in bone mass. Four crew members took calcium tracers to
measure how the mineral is absorbed in orbit. Dr. Claude Arnaud of the
University of California in San Francisco will use results to help determine
whether the bone loss is due to a decrease in bone production or an increase in
bone breakdown.
Dr. Clarence Alfrey will use today's blood samples to track how iron tracers
injected into the crew members early in the flight are moving through their
bodies for his study of space flight anemia. Astronauts' blood volume after
space flight is about 10 percent less than it was at launch, due to a reduction
of both the volume of red blood cells and plasma. Several rodents received
iron tracers several days ago in a parallel test of red blood cell production.
Payload Specilist Marty Fettman and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf and Lucid
will complete final runs of the mission's cardiovascular experiments through
the remainder of Flight Day 12.
They will use the American Flight Echocardiograph to make video images of their
hearts. In another activity, they will take measurements of their heart rate,
lung volume and blood pressure first at rest, then at 30 percent, 60 percent,
and 100 percent of their maximum pre-flight heart rate. They also will measure
the blood volume and pressure in their legs.
As is true with the metabolic experiments, more than one principal investigator
will benefit from the activities. Dr. Leon Farhi of State University of New
York in Buffalo is studying changes in various cardiovascular and
cardiopulmonary measurements during prolonged weightlessnesss and then on
return to Earth. Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist of the University of Texas Health
Science Center is tracking how the heart and blood vessels adapt to
weightlessness.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #22
Friday, October 29, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
A wide array of medical experiments continued aboard Columbia today on the 12th
day of the latest spacelab Life Sciences mission. At the same time, Mission
Control is looking ahead to an upcoming flight and taking data that will help
flight planners.
Columbia is orbiting Earth in the same attitude that will be used for the
STS-74 United States Microgravity Laboratory-2. This wil enable data on that
attitude to be collected for the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment. The
information is expected to be useful to scientists and engineers planning STS-
74, which will involve sensitive crystal growth experiments that need a quiet,
motion-free environment.
Columbia is now orbiting with its tail pointed toward the Earth and its payload
bay facing in the direction of travel, or "velocity vector." This attitude will
be maintained for 10 orbits, or about 15 hours. As the shuttle flies in this
orientation, the crew also is performing supply and waste water dumps, trying
to determine what dump method will pose the least interference to the
microgravity experiments.
This was one of the busiest days for Columbia's scientist-astronauts as they
headed into the final phase of their biomedical studies, with Pilot Rick
Searfoss and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur pitching in on several of the
Spacelab experiments.
Commander John Blaha, Searfoss and McArthur also began preparing for Monday's
scheduled landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, reviewing entry
flight rules and taking turns on a laptop computer simulator nicknamed PILOT --
for Portable In-Flight Landing Operations Trainer. Blaha reported yesterday
that PILOT so far appears to be a useful tool for sharpening landing skills.
McArthur was a subject again in the Lower Body Negative Pressure device, the
body-sized sock that helps pull body fluids back to their lower extremities.
The effectiveness of LBNP as a countermeasure to offset the lightheaded feeling
some astronauts experience when they return to Earth is being tested.
The crew is scheduled to begin its sleep shift at 7:23 p.m. CDT, and awaken
after eight hours of sleep at 3:23 a.m. Saturday.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #23
4:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 29, 1993
11/06:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Today three astronauts exercised to their maximum ability, measured the
size of their hearts and measured the blood flow in their legs. This is the
last set of cardiovascular measurements planned for the STS-58 flight and today
will show just how well the crew's physiology has adapted to space.
The cardiovascular experiments for Spacelab Life Sciences 2 focus on two
main investigations. "One key issue is the ability to maintain blood pressure
when standing up after spaceflight. Gravity will have a profound effect on
them after they come back from space," Alternate Payload Specialist Jay Buckey
said.
"Secondly, we want to look at the early adaptation in space. Before
SLS-1, we had an understanding based on studies done down on the ground and the
SLS-1 results weren't like anything we'd seen before on the ground. On this
flight we measured heart rate, blood pressure, central venous pressure and
heart size. So far, it looks like we will confirm our SLS-1 findings," Buckey
explained.
"SLS-2 is changing our understanding about how the cardiovascular system
adapts to space. Now we're looking forward to their first day back. They've
adapted well to space, but now they will have to readjust to 1 g which will
have dramatic effects on the cardiovascular system," he said. Buckey was also
the Payload Communicator with the crew today.
Upon entering space, fluid leaves the legs and goes into the upper body.
Before SLS-1, investigators believed this would increase pressure in the chest.
So far, this has not been the case and shows that microgravity produces unique
physiological changes that are only now being fully studied. Blood volume
decreases during spaceflight. When Columbia lands, the cardiovascular system
will be challenged because the blood volume will be smaller and gravity will
pull blood into the legs.
The final set of cardiovascular data was gathered today in three areas.
Early this morning, Mission Specialists David Wolf and Shannon Lucid and
Payload Specialist Martin Fettman took a leg flow and compliance measurement.
This measurement shows how distensible or flabby the leg may have become in
space. If the leg is more distensible more blood might go into the legs when
the crewmembers stand up back in Earth's gravity. This could make it harder on
the cardiovascular system to maintain blood pressure once back in 1 g.
Wolf, Lucid and Fettman also measured the size of their hearts using an
echocardiogram. High frequency sound waves are sent into the body and an image
is formed from the reflections on a video screen.
In addition, cardiac output measurements were taken today on an exercise
bicycle. Pilot Rick Searfoss, Wolf, Lucid and Fettman performed the test first
at rest and then at 30 percent, 60 percent and 100 percent of their pre-flight
maximum ability. The measurements will be compared to measurements to be made
directly after landing. This set of investigations was designed by Dr. C.
Gunnar Blomqvist of the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in
Dallas.
Before breakfast, work began on a metabolic investigation developed by Dr.
Carolyn Leach of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Blood, urine and saliva
samples were taken from Wolf, Lucid and Fettman to study how the body's
endocrine and kidney systems have adapted to the headward fluid shift. Tracers
that were ingested and injected were tracked as they moved through the body.
An isotope tracer, Oxygen 18, measured total body water. Para-aminohippurate
and Inutest measured plasma excreted through the kidneys. Iodine 125 measured
the amount of plasma in the blood and Sulfur 35 measured the fluid around the
outside of the cells.
One of these tracers, Nitrogen 15, also was used to track muscle atrophy
to determine the amount of protein broken down by the end of the flight. Dr.
T. Peter Stein of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in
Camden will study why astronauts experience a decrease in muscle tissue and
strength.
The crew is scheduled to go to sleep at 7:23 tonight with a
wake-up call scheduled for 3:23 a.m.
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| 851.103 | MCC Status Reports #23-26; SLS-2 Status Reports #24-27; Landing Statement | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Nov 01 1993 13:47 | 454 |
| STS-58 Status Report #23
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Saturday, October 30, 1993, 6 a.m. CDT
Columbia's astronauts were awakened at 3:23 AM Central time to the theme music
from "St. Elsewhere" by Mike Post, a television show set in a Boston hospital,
as flight controllers paid tribute to the researchers conducting biomedical
studies aboard the shuttle.
With all of Columbia's systems in excellent shape, the astronauts focused their
attention on a final full day of medical investigations in orbit involving
animal research.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman, a
veterinarian, are spending most of day performing dissections on five, possibly
six rodents carried in special cages in the Spacelab science module housed in
the shuttle's cargo bay.
The rodents will be humanely killed and dissected by Seddon and Fettman over a
seven-hour period and their tissues and vital organs preserved in a fixative
solution for detailed analysis by experts on Earth once Columbia returns home.
Data regarding the effect of microgravity on the rodents' tissues and organs
will then be compared to information obtained about the impact of
weightlessness on humans for application to medical research on Earth.
The other payload crew members, David Wolf and Shannon Lucid, will conduct more
metabolic studies in the Spacelab and exercise on a bicycle ergometer as the
mission begins to wind down. Late today, they will conduct the daily health
checks on the other rodents in the Spacelab workshop.
Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and Flight Engineer Bill McArthur
will film additional scenes for an educational movie being compiled on Columbia
involving life in space and biomedical research. The astronauts also plan
final contacts with amateur radio operators on Earth using the shuttle's ham
radio gear.
Throughout the night, Columbia orbited the Earth in a tail-to-the-Earth
orientation with the shuttle's payload bay in the direction of travel to gather
data on orbiter motion for engineers planning the second United States
Microgravity Laboratory mission in 1995. Officials want to keep the shuttle as
still as possible as it orbits the Earth during that flight to enhance the
growth of crystals and the results of other experiments during that flight.
Columbia is currently orbiting at an altitude of about 162 miles. It is
scheduled to break the record for the longest shuttle flight set last year on
Mission STS-50 at 4:23 AM Central time Monday, just a few hours before
Columbia's planned landing on a concrete runway at California's Edwards Air
Force Base.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #24
9:00 a.m. CDT, Oct. 30, 1993
11/23:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Rodent tissue samples showing the effects of microgravity will
be gathered today onboard Spacelab Life Sciences 2. This is the
first time in the history of the U.S. Space Program that research
scientists will be able to analyze mammalian tissue showing actual
spaceflight conditions. No in-flight samples were collected during
SLS-1.
Inner ear, muscle, organ and bone tissue samples will be taken
from five rats, and possibly a sixth if time permits. The
procedures involved in the decapitation and preservative process
are delicate and critical. For example, the inner ear tissue must
be preserved within two minutes after the animal is killed.
Payload Commander Rhea Seddon and Payload Specialist Martin
Fettman, a veterinarian, have been extensively trained in using the
guillotine for the decapitation procedure. This process is a humane
procedure when uncontaminated tissue is required by scientists.
The use of drugs would contaminate the samples by altering the
characteristics of the organ tissue. Decapitation also allows
access to the inner ear tissue.
The "pure microgravity" samples are valuable because many
physiology processes begin to readapt to gravity within minutes
upon landing. "These samples are as precious to life sciences as
the lunar samples were to geologists and planetary scientists,"
Mission Scientist Howard Schneider said.
The in-flight samples will be used by two investigations. One
experiment will determine the changes that occurred in the
gravity-receptors located in the inner ear. The inner ear gravity
detection process uses inner ear hair cells to sense gravity's
position in relation to the head. Synapses stimulate the hair
cells to signal the brain. An interesting SLS-1 finding showed
that the number of synapses increased. It is hypothesized that the
increased number of synapses occurs because of the decreased
sensory inputs in the microgravity environment. Principal
Investigator Dr. Muriel Ross of NASA Ames Research Center in
Moffett Field is a neuroscientist who has done outstanding work in
computer recreations of the hair cells in the inner ear.
In the second experiment, muscle tissue will be examined for
muscle shrinkage or atrophy, tears in muscle fibers and the enzyme
activity causing the atropy. The trauma motor nerves undergo
during spaceflight will also be studied. SLS-1 findings indicate
that muscles used by the body to counter the pull of gravity on
Earth weaken in space. These less efficient and less endurable
muscles sustain damage upon return to 1 g because they must carry
the body's weight. This experiment is sponsored by Dr. D.A. Riley
of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
The 48 rats are being used for six different investigations
sponsored by Ames Research Center. More than 100 researchers
located throughout the world will use the blood and tissue samples
gathered on SLS-2 through NASA's Biospecimen Sharing Program.
Other SLS-2 experiments involving the rodents include an
investigation that looks at the production of red blood cells to
develop an effective countermeasure for spaceflight anemia. A
related study investigates the regulation of blood volume in rats
to see if the regulatory processes in rats are similar to human
processes. A calcium study will determine the effects of
weightlessness on bones. A post-flight investigation will analyze
how back leg muscles convert nutrients into energy.
Early this morning, follow-up blood and urine samples to the
calcium, hematology and regulatory physiology investigations were
gathered from Seddon, Fettman and Mission Specialists Shannon Lucid
and David Wolf.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #25
4:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 30, 1993
12/06:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
For the first time, investigators will be able to look at
tissue samples collected in space that have not been changed by
re-exposure to Earth's gravity. To do this, six rodents were
dissected today onboard Spacelab Life Sciences 2.
"Things went pretty well. We're happy to accomplish this. It
was a big day for us," Payload Specialist Martin Fettman
commented. "The team at Ames Research Center did a fantastic job
putting together the in-flight kits."
Each dissection took about one hour. The tissue samples from
the rats were chemically preserved, refrigerated or frozen.
Fettman worked side-by-side with Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, an
emergency room physician. Following completion of the difficult
and delicate procedure, the two crew members each exercised for an
hour.
The bone and muscle tissue gathered today are unique and will
provide investigators with samples as they exist in microgravity.
Mammalian tissue showing the effects of weightlessness inflight
have never been available to biomedical researchers. No inflight
samples were collected during SLS-1 and post-flight samples show
that many physiological processes readapt to gravity within minutes
after landing.
Over 100 scientists from Russia, Japan, France and throughout
the United States will be given the opportunity to study the tissue
samples through NASA's Biospecimen Sharing Program. The samples
illustrate cellular changes during spaceflight such as biochemical
reactions, receptor levels, enzyme activity and structural changes.
Today's activity supports two SLS-2 investigations. First,
the mechanisms causing muscle weakness and nerve trauma will be
studied using light and electron microscopy so scientists can
determine the changes taking place within individual cells. This
research will aid scientists in countering muscle atrophy both for
astronauts and patients confined to long periods of bedrest.
Second, organ and bone tissue from the inner ear will be
studied for structural changes in gravity receptors. This research
may help develop cures for balance disorders.
Principal investigators are Dr. D.A. Riley of Medical College
of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Dr. Muriel Ross of NASA Ames Research
Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Other activities conducted today included taking follow-up
blood and urine samples from Seddon, Fettman and Mission
Specialists Shannon Lucid and David Wolf to support the calcium,
hematology and regulatory physiology investigations. Lucid and
Wolf also donned the Accelerometer Recording Unit headgear to
measure head movements. Mission Specialist Bill McArthur performed
an unscheduled run of an experiment that measures lung function in
space.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #24
Saturday, October 30, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
Columbia is in the home stretch of its record-setting 14-day Spacelab Life
Sciences 2 mission now that the crew has completed its final full day of
medical investigations focusing on animal research.
The crew continued to take data on how everyday activities on the shuttle
affect the microgravity environment. Today, several crew members pushed off
the walls and ceiling of the Spacelab module with a force meter as sensitive
accelerometers recorded their effect on the shuttle. After landing, scientists
on the ground will try to correlate the amount of force exerted by the
astronauts with the changes recorded by the accelerometers.
Commander John Blaha, Pilot Rick Searfoss and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur
videotaped more scenes for an educational program that will be available to
teachers around the country for use as a tool to inspire and encourage their
students.
McArthur reported today that the crew had made 19 contacts with students
through the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment -- 16 with schools in the United
States, one in France, one in Argentina and one in Trinidad.
The crew is scheduled to begin its sleep shift at 7:23 p.m. CDT, and awaken at
2:23 a.m. CST Sunday.
Columbia is orbiting at an altitude of about 145 nautical miles. At 4:23 a.m.
CST Monday, the STS-58 crew will set a record for the longest shuttle flight,
surpassing the record set last year on STS-50. Forecasters were predicting
favorable conditions for Columbia's planned 9:06 a.m. CST Monday landing at
Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-58 Status Report #25
Sunday, October 31, 1993, 6 a.m. CST
Columbia's seven astronauts were awakened at 2:23 AM Central Standard Time to
the Halloween sound of "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett to begin their
final full day of activities in orbit.
With the bulk of the biomedical research aboard the shuttle's Spacelab science
module now complete, the astronauts turn their attention today to preparations
for tomorrow's scheduled return to Earth.
Commander John Blaha and Pilot Rick Searfoss will activate one of Columbia's
three hydraulic power units to conduct a routine pre-landing check of the
orbiter's aerosurfaces. In addition, Blaha and Searfoss will fire Columbia's
reaction control system jets to insure that the shuttle is in top condition for
its reentry and landing Monday morning at 9:06 AM Central time at California's
Edwards Air Force Base.
Searfoss will join Mission Specialist Bill McArthur for final work with the
Lower Body Negative Pressure device, the sack-like instrument used by
astronauts to pull fluids back through the body which have pooled near the head
during long stints in weightlessness. McArthur will spend about four hours in
the LBNP device before it is folded up for the rest of the flight.
After lunch, Blaha, Searfoss and McArthur will pack away all of the gear in
Columbia's crew cabin, while the four payload crewmembers, Payload Commander
Rhea Seddon, David Wolf, Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman
will begin to stow equipment in the Spacelab science workshop and start the
deactivation of some of the Spacelab systems. Final deactivation of the
Spacelab will be conducted early Monday, just hours before landing.
Columbia is scheduled to break the record for the longest shuttle mission at
4:23 AM Central time Monday, eclipsing the mark it set last year during the
STS-50/United States Microgravity Laboratory flight. At that time, Columbia's
mission will become the fourth longest flight in American manned spaceflight
history, surpassed only by the three Skylab missions in 1973 and 1974.
All of Columbia's systems continue to function in excellent shape as the
shuttle orbits the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of about 162 miles.
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #26
9:00 a.m. CST, Oct. 31, 1993
13/00:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Crew members are wrapping up their on-orbit experiment
activities on this the final science gathering day for Spacelab
Life Sciences 2. At the completion of today's work, the lab will
be partially deactivated this afternoon to prepare for Monday's
landing. Columbia is scheduled to land at Edwards Air Force Base
at 9:06 (Central) Monday morning.
"STS-58 has been superb from a mission operations
perspective," said Susan Brand, payload operations director. "The
team has worked very hard preparing for this flight and their
efforts are evidenced by how smoothly everything has gone. The lab
and the experiment equipment have operated very well and I look
forward to seeing the scientific results from all of the
experiments."
Early this morning, follow-up blood draws to support the
regulatory, hematology, calcium and protein investigations were
collected from Payload Commander Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialists
David Wolf and Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Martin
Fettman. The investigations study kidney function, absorption of
calcium in bone tissue, production of red blood cells and how
muscles metabolize protein. In conjunction with this data, Fettman
took a hematocrit measurement, which gives the number of red blood
cells in a volume of whole blood.
Lucid and Seddon also took a blood sample from each of the ten
rats being used in a study to observe the impact of the hormone
erythropoietin. Erythropoietin and an iron tracer were injected in
both the payload crew members and the rats earlier in the week to
determine if the hormone stimulated red blood cell production.
This may be a possible countermeasure to spaceflight anemia.
The final set of cardiac output measurements on the bicycle
were taken at rest this morning by Wolf, Fettman and Lucid. These
measurements were not followed by measurements taken during
excerise periods as done previously in the flight. Lastly, Wolf
made an additional measurement of the blood pressure in the veins
near the surface of his arm.
After Columbia lands, the payload crew faces additional blood
draws, first in California and then later Monday at the Medical
Experiments Data Collection Facility at Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas. The crew will remain on their backs to counteract
the pull of gravity, which will pull the fluid in their upper torso
back into their feet. Additional blood and urine samples will be
taken frequently the first week after landing to see how the body
readjusts to gravity. The blood draws will continue at regular
intervals up to 45 days after landing.
This will provide biomedical researchers with a complete
picture of how the human physiological systems adapt to spaceflight
and readapt to gravity. The rodents also will be used in a number
of post-flight tests. They will be taken to NASA's Dryden Flight
Research Center at Edwards, Calif., for post-flight processing
immediately after landing.
"The SLS-2 dedicated life sciences mission is undoutably the
most efficient Spacelab flight to date. The crew has been
exceptional. The Orbiter and Spacelab have performed extremely
well," said Gary McCollum, NASA Headquarters SLS-2 program
manager. "The life sciences support hardware has performed very
well."
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SLS-2 Public Affairs Status Report #27
2:00 p.m. CDT, Oct. 31, 1993
13/05:07 MET
Spacelab Mission Operations Control
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
The Spacelab Life Sciences 2 crew completed their final
in-flight research work by noon today and are now shutting down
their orbiting lab for tomorrow's trip home. SLS-2 will return to
Earth a Shuttle full of life sciences information for biomedical
investigators following completion of the 14-day mission, the
longest Shuttle flight to date.
For the first time, the scientific community will be able to
study bone and muscle tissue collected in space that has not been
altered by re-exposure to Earth's gravity. Inner ear, muscle,
organ and bone tissue samples were taken in-flight from six rats.
Continuing the 1991 SLS-1 investigations, the experiments
focus on how humans adapt to weightlessness and readapt to Earth's
gravity. SLS-2 collected over 650 different samples from both the
animals and the crew, increasing the statistical base for the life
sciences research. More than 100 researchers throughout the world
will use the various samples through NASA's Biospecimen Sharing
Program.
"SLS-2 has been, in every way, an undeniable success. I'm
proud of the team, the work that the crew has done and the science
that they have gathered. This mission has provided the scientific
community with a great deal of information that will benefit humans
on Earth and in space for a long time to come," said Mission
Manager Lele Newkirk.
"All of our accomplishments exceeded our expectations,"
Mission Scientist Howard Schneider said. He remembered biomedical
work started by Dr. Craig Fisher on red blood cell production
during the first days of spaceflight and continued by Dr. Steven
Kimsey and Dr. Phil Johnson, both now deceased, that laid the
foundation for the current investigation of that process sponsored
by Dr. Clarence Alfrey, Dr. Robert Lange and Dr. Albert Ichiki on
this mission.
Activities for 14 experiments, including the reserve
experiment, were completed. Eight experiments, sponsored by the
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, involved the crew as both
operators and subjects. Six experiments, sponsored by Ames
Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., involved the 48 rodents
aboard Columbia. Some of the experiments did parallel work on both
the crew and the rodents.
Experiments were conducted in four areas: regulatory
physiology, cardiovascular/cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal and
neuroscience.
In the regulatory physiology discipline, all of the
experiments that involved taking tracers followed by blood, saliva
and urine samples were completed in full. Measurements of the crew
members' venous pressure were fully completed as well, and in some
cases exceeded the planned number of tests.
In the cardiovascular/cardiopulmonary discipline, all
experiments also were completed and exceeded in many cases
including three extra measurements of leg volume and one extra
subject in an echocardiograph experiment that studied the heart.
In addition, an experiment that studied the function of lungs in
weightlessness and had been kept as reserve on the flight,
unscheduled in preplanned timelines, gained 19 evaluations.
In the musculoskeletal discipline, the experiments involved
both humans and animals and were all completed successfully. This
investigation studied the effects of calcium loss on bones, muscle
atrophy and loss of muscle strength, and how muscles metabolize
protein.
In the neuroscience discipline, studies concerning the effect
of weightlessness on the sense of balance and orientation, many
extra tests were performed, above and beyond what had been
originally planned. In an experiment that used a rotating dome to
study how the eyes compensate for the inner ear, three extra runs
were performed. In an experiment that studied how astronauts
awareness of their position is affected by zero gravity, six extra
studies were completed, twice as many as had been planned. In an
experiment that studied a reflex action that causes one to brace
themselves when they perceive they are falling, called the drop
experiment, six extra tests were conducted as well. And, in an
experiment that used a rotating chair to study reflex eye
movements, two extra evaluations were performed.
Investigations involving the rodents carried aboard will
parallel many of the same areas as the investigations that involved
the crew.
Although the crew has completed their in-flight work, the
scientific investigations will resume immediately after Columbia
lands to study how both the crew and the animals readapt to
gravity.
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STS-58 Status Report #26
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
Sunday, October 31, 1993, 1 p.m. CST
Columbia's seven astronauts prepared the orbiter for the return home Monday to
California's Edwards Air Force Base now that the bulk of the biomedical
research aboard the shuttle's Spacelab science module is now completed.
Commander John Blaha and Pilot Rick Searfoss activated one of Columbia's three
hydraulic units to conduct a routine pre-landing check of the orbiter's
aerosurfaces. In addition, they fired Columbia's reaction control system jets
to ensure the shuttle is in top condition for its reentry and landing Monday
morning at 9:06 Central at Edwards. A second opportunity to land is available,
if needed, an hour and a half later at 10:40.
After lunch, Blaha, Searfoss and McArthur began packing away all of the gear in
Columbia's crew cabin, while the four payload crewmembers, Rhea Seddon, David
Wolf, Shannon Lucid and Payload Specialist Marty Fettman started stowing
equipment in the Spacelab. Final deactivation of the Spacelab will be conducted
early Monday prior to landing.
STS-58 will become the longest shuttle mission to date at 4:23 tomorrow
morning, eclipsing the mark it set last year during the STS-50/United States
Microgravity Laboratory flight.
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STS-58 LANDING STATEMENT
Columbia's 14 day, 13 minute record setting science mission came to an end this
morning at 9:06:44 CST. at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The 5,840,560
mile mission set a new record for shuttle missions, surpassing STS-50 as the
longest mission to date. The only NASA missions which have lasted longer were
the 3 Skylab missions of the 1970's.
Columbia's main gear touchdown occured at 9:05:42 CDT with nosegear touching
down at 9:05:54 CDT, wheel stop was at the 9:06:44 CDT mark.
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| 851.104 | UPI: Columbia touches down after record 14-day flight | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Mon Nov 01 1993 21:34 | 44 |
| From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
Subject: Columbia touches down after record 14-day flight
Copyright: 1993 by UPI, R
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 10:19:37 PST
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) -- Space shuttle Columbia touched
down on a Mojave Desert landing strip Monday, ending a successful
record-long 14-day medical research mission.
Commander John Blaha steered Columbia during the final approach to
Edwards Air Force Base, circling high overhead to dissipate speed before
easing the shuttle down onto the runway at 7:05 a.m. PST.
``Congratulations on a very successful life sciences mission and also
for being the fourth longest mission in our space program history,''
radioed astronaut Curt Brown, from Mission Control at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston.
With the Spacelab module in the cargo bay, the shuttle's weight
topped 228,000 pounds at landing, prompting NASA flight managers to use
the California runway.
Though less convenient than the landing strip at the shuttle's launch
site in Florida, the wider and longer California runway provided more
margin for Blaha and co-pilot Richard Searfoss to control the spaceship.
The shuttle returned from its 5.8-million-mile journey with some
damage to thermal insulation around its main engines and to its delicate
heat-resistant tiles.
``We have a couple of problem areas,'' said shuttle program director
Tom Utsman, adding that the thermal barrier missing from the shuttle's
engine area was not a flight or safety issue. The shielding is primarily
needed during launch, when the main engines are burning.
Columbia's mission was dedicated to medical research in an effort to
understand the chemical and biological effects of spaceflight on the
human body.
Several experiments also involved laboratory rats, six of which were
killed and dissected by astronauts during the mission to preserve any
subtle changes before the tissues began readapting to Earth's gravity.
The remaining rats were to be dissected after landing.
Medical tests on the crew -- which also includes flight engineer
William McArthur, payload commander Rhea Seddon, Shannon Lucid, David
Wolf and veterinarian Martin Fettman -- will continue through the middle
of December to fully document how the astronauts readapt to gravity.
Future Spacelab life sciences missions are planned for later this
decade.
NASA's next shuttle mission is scheduled for launch on Dec. 1. During
the flight, scheduled for 11 days, teams of spacewalking astronauts will
attempt to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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| 851.105 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/01/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 02 1993 11:43 | 32 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, November 1, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
FLIGHT DAY - 15 / LANDING DAY
_________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE/TIME: October 18 / 10:53 a.m. EDT
APPROXIMATE MISSION DURATION: 14 days/13 minutes
APPROXIMATE LANDING DATE/TIME: November 1 / 10:06 a.m. EST
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards AFB, Calif.
CREW: Commander John Blaha; Pilot Richard Searfoss; Mission
Specialists Rhea Seddon, Bill McArthur, David Wolf,
Shannon Lucid; Payload Specialist Martin Fettman
NOTE: Columbia landed successfully and on time today at Edwards
Air Force Base, Calif. This ends the longest Space Shuttle mis-
sion to date. The orbiter and crew landed on orbit 225 on con-
crete runway 22. Approximate mission elapse times are as follow:
Main gear touchdown: 14:00:12.32 (10:05.42 EST)
Nose gear touchdown: 14:00:12.44 (10:05.54 EST)
Wheel stop: 14:00:13.34 (10:06.44 EST)
Current plans call for Columbia to begin its two-day ferry flight
back to KSC on November 7, with arrival at KSC on November 8.
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| 851.106 | Columbia | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | | Tue Nov 02 1993 15:45 | 12 |
| I was watching my VCR replay of the landing last night. The bonus
was watching the video inventory coverage after the landing. They
had a person walking all around the shuttle showing close-ups of
the main engines, the torn/damaged insulation around the gimbals
of the main engines, the tile damage, close-ups of all the thruster
ports, landing gear, under-belly attachements for main tank, OMS
engine close-ups, leading and trailing edge of wings & other surfaces.
It was very well done. BTW it was one of the softer landings I've
ever seen. The coverage of the immediate post-landing activites was
an impressive and well covered event.
Bob
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| 851.107 | | LHOTSE::DAHL | Customers do not buy architectures | Tue Nov 02 1993 16:07 | 7 |
| RE: <<< Note 851.106 by LEVERS::BATTERSBY >>>
> The coverage of the immediate post-landing activites was
> an impressive and well covered event.
What station/service was this coverate aired? NASA Select?
-- Tom
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| 851.108 | | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 02 1993 17:55 | 8 |
| That level of coverage seems to be unique to Edwards. When I was at KSC
a couple of years ago (they landed at Edwards - I have such wonderful luck) the
TV sets in the cafeteria were showing such inspections. Every time I've had
a chance to see a landing with NASA Select since then they've landed at KSC
and the post landing coverage is ho-hum at best.
- dave
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| 851.109 | RE: NASA Select TV coverage of Landing.... | LEVERS::BATTERSBY | | Tue Nov 02 1993 20:56 | 5 |
| >>What station/service was this coverate aired? NASA Select?
-- Tom
Yes it was NASA Select
Bob
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| 851.110 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/03/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Fri Nov 05 1993 11:36 | 22 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, November 3, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
_________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: Edwards AFB, Calif.
LAUNCH DATE/TIME: October 18 / 10:53 a.m. EDT
MISSION DURATION: 14 days/13 minutes
LANDING DATE/TIME: November 1 / 10:06 a.m. EST at Edwards AFB
NOTE: Current plans call for Columbia to begin its two-day ferry flight back to
KSC on November 7, with arrival at KSC on November 8. All work in continuing
as planned on the vehicle which is currently in the mate/demate device.
Experiment destow is complete.
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| 851.111 | KSC Shuttle Status Report - 11/08/93 | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN | Dave Griffin | Tue Nov 09 1993 12:02 | 20 |
| KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Monday, November 8, 1993
_______________________________________________________________
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
_________________________________________________
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 LOCATION: KSC Shuttle Landing Facility
LAUNCH DATE/TIME: October 18 / 10:53 a.m. EDT
LANDING DATE/TIME: November 1 / 10:06 a.m. EST at Edwards AFB
NOTE: Columbia and its 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft landed at
KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 10:56 this morning. The duo
left Edwards Air Force Base, California yesterday and remained
overnight at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Once Columbia is
demated from its 747 carrier aircraft, it will be towed and
placed inside OPF bay 2 for processing of its next mission,
STS-62.
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| 851.112 | Earth images available | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Mon Dec 06 1993 16:19 | 356 |
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3-DEC-1993 18:42:11.95
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Subj: Photography acquired from last month's Shuttle mission (STS-58)
The STS-58 Space Shuttle mission (late Oct. 1993) returned with about
4000 frames of spectacular Earth imagery. Many people responded to a
solicitation for requests for specific photography. Altho the film is
still not completely cataloged, I am posting my quick-look list of
significant photos. Those wishing to obtain a more complete listing
of the photography can access the nadir positions of all of the
photography (uncataloged) in the following way:
Access our database:
TELNET SSEOP.JSC.NASA.GOV
username: NADIR
password: NADIRLIST
The directory will show all the files, and the filenames reflect the
mission. This mission is STS-058. All other missions are cataloged
and can be accessed through the database proper (Username: PHOTOS,
Password: PHOTOS).
The STS-58 astronauts took great photography of the U.S. in fall
colors. The listing includes more than volcanoes -- features of
general geologic interest, as well as many cities. Specific volcanoes
of note include Mt. Ararat (Turkey(, and Unzen and Sakurajima in Japan.
Because the list includes photos without databack information, there
are a few questionable identifications.
STS-58 significant photos
Roll Frame Description
71-18 San Francisco Bay area
71-21 Sierra/Mono Lake
71-22 Santa Cruz & Monterey
71-26 San Fran-Pt Reyes
71-30 LA smog
71-32 Mouth of Col. R.
71-43 N. Pinatubo lahars
71-44 N. Pinatubo lahars
71-45 N. Pinatubo lahars
71-47 Manila
71-65 Lake Van and Ararat
71-81 Vesuvius
71-92 Ararat
72-3 Salton Sea
72-14 Oblique of Pinatubo
72-37 Etna
72-49 Ararat
72-70 Gibralter and Internal waves
72-88 E. Med & Turkey
72-96 Kuwait oil fire scars
73-04 Lisbon
73-09 Gibralter and internal waves
73-23 Etna
73-24 Vesuvius and Naples (very good)
73-32 Crete
73-33 Crete
73-34 Crete
73-35 Crete
73-36 Aegean I
73-55 Kuwaiti oil fire scars
73-56 Kuwait City
73-83 High Sierra
73-87 Lake Powell
74-OJ Cape Lookout
74-0Q L. poweel to Mead
74-0Y Las Vegas to Edwards AFB
74-oZ vegas to CA
74-05 Everest & Brahmaputra
74-09 Tibetan lakes
74-29 oblique of Lake Van and Ararat
74-33 Tigris-Euphrates
74-35 linear and star dune fields
74-38 Zagros Mtns
75-37 S, African gold mines
75-44 Great Salt Lkae to Cascades
75-60 N. Carolina coast
75-73 north of Cape Town
75-85 Cape Town
76-31 Baja , CA and smoke from LA fires
76-69 Lake Tana
76-81 Lake Chad
77-30 south view down Andes
77-80 wide view, S.Africa and Cape Town
78-14 TIbetan Lakes
78-45 Fuji
78-49 Tokyo
78-67 eddies and ship wakes in Persian Gulf
78-94 Contrails over midwest, Chigao to Appalachia
78-95 DC-Chicago
78-96 DC-NYC
78-97 DC-Boston
79-49 Korean volcano ?
79-89 Tibet & glaciers
79-93 Tibet
80-02 Colorado
80-06 Denver
80-18 St Louis
80-32 Dallas/FT Worth
80-38 LA
80-57 G. Fonseca and Coseguina
80-96 Busan, Korea
81-08 DC
81-09 Baltimore
81-11 Cape Cod
81-12 Boston-Providence
81-20 Grand Canyon
81-22 Lake Powell
81-29 L. Michigan
81-36 Lower Hudson, NYC in fall colors
81-38 NYC
81-48 Mouth of Chesapeake
81-49 DC-Baltimore
81-57 Dunes on brazil ? coast
81-96 Fuji
81-98 Tokyo
81-18 Namib desert
82-50 Pt Reyes
82-51 Mono lake
82-56 E. sierra and Owens Creek
82-57 E. Sierra
82-58 E. Sierra
82-59 East Sierra
82-60 E. Sierra
82-62 Salton Sea to Edwards
83-01 San Diego
83-04 LA
83-17 Jemez Mountain
83-19 White Sands and Carizozo lava fields
83-26 Monterey Bay & Santa Cruz Mtns
83-33 las Vegas
83-34 silted inlet into L. Mead
84-33 Seoul, Korea ?
84-43 Tokyo and Fuji
84-64 Afar triangle
85-2 NYC and lower Hudson
85-4 Connecticut
85-05 Boston to Providence
85-63 DC-Baltimore
85-64 Baltimore-Philly
85-65 Philly-NY
85-71 Shasta ?
85-73 S. Cascade (TBD volcano)
85-75 Crater Lake
85-76 Crater L. and north
85-77 S. Cascades
85-78 irrigation in a dry lake bed
85-90 Oblique of Wind Rivers and Tetons
85-94 Wind River Range ?
86-16 Lisbon
86-20 Cadiz
86-21 Gibralter
87-1 Cyprus
87-2 Cyprus (pointed end)
87-3 Central Cyprus
87-86 S. end lake Nasser (silting up)
87-87 Lake Nasser
87-93 Aswan Dam
88-18 Richat structure
88-22 Richat structure
88-37 Great Sand Dunes
88-39 Pikes Peak/Col Springs
88-51 Kansas City?
88-60 St Louis
88-85 PA Appalchains in fall color
88-88 Appalchains in fall color
88-90 Appalchains in fall color
88-93 Baltimore
88-97 oblique view of Susquehanna & Appalchains
88-99 Philly
89-5 Taos area from the east
89-19 Chicago
89-36 Cape
89-41 Bahamas whitings
89-63 Korea
89-67 crater in Korea
89-74 Kauai
89-86 Tibet glacier
89-93 Sevilla
90-14 San Juan Mtns and San Luis Valley
90-15 Rio grande Rift -- wide view
90-24 Carolina coast
90-50 Shikoku to Unzen
90-78 Gulf on Chinese coast
90-91 Hawaii
91-89 Appalachains in fall color
91-90 Appalachains in fall color
91-91 Appalachains in fall color
92-83 Lake Natron, Ngorangora crater
93-11 Lake Poopo
93-33 Amazon in sunglint
93-34 Amazon in sunglint
93-46 Galapagos
93-54 S. of Galapagos
93-76 Lascar, Chile
94-33 San Miguel, Azores
94-37 madeira
94-75 Omo RiverDelta, L. Turkana
94-76 south end of Turkana
94-79 cinder cones and maars, south of Turkana
94-87 Tidal estuary, Baja CA
94-93 Guadalupe Mtns
94-94 Permian basin
95-19 Greek Isles
95-20 Greek Isles
95-49 wide angle, Azores
95-78 Crete and Santorini
95-81 west edge of Nile Delta
96-11 Gibralter
96-41 Dead Sea, Gaza, Amman
97-13 Aso, Kyushu
97-73 N. Japan in fall color
98-01 Mississippi River floodplain
98-03 Mississippi River floodplain
98-04 Mississippi River floodplain
98-21 Shasta
98-22 Great Salt Lake
98-27 Salt Lake City
98-73 Tokyo in sunglint
98-98 sunrise over Himalaya
99-23 Himalaya?
99-56 Himalaya?
100-74 Cape Lookout
101-14 Mt Everest (best picture)
101-20 oblique of Everest
101-22 Everest from north
101-40A Fuji
101-53 San Antonio
101-56 Gulf Coast
101-58 Houston
102-18 St. Louis to L. Michigan
102-63 wide angle of Everest
102-76 Tibet
102-83 smoke-filled valley in Tibet
103-32 E. Sierra
103-34 Mono Lake
103-44 Corpus Christie
103-59 Amazon
103-65 Sakurajima
103-66 Unzen
103-77 Tokyo
103-80 Tokyo
104-53 Namib
104-75 Amazon Delta
104-76 Amazon Delta
105-7 Lake Erie to Michigan
105-13 Chesapeake to Finger lakes to Great lakes
105-14 Baltimore-Conn
105-15 Long I. and Cape Cod
105-16 Boston to Portland Maine (almost)
105-43 Tibet
105-85 Chinese city?
106-21 Amazon delta
107-33 White Sands-Carizozo
107-32 Rio grande
107-37 Miss. and Red Rivers
107-39 New Orleans
107-41 Miss. Delta
107-43 Mobile Bay
The following rolls are color infrared
108-5 Alluvial fan in desert
109-29 coastal estuary (/)
108-32 estuary with stuff growing in it (/)
108-40 N. Carolina Coast
108-41 N. Carolina coast
108-47 Amazonian river
108-52 Amazon
108-57 island (?)108-60 coastal Peru
108-65 central Andes
108-97 Coseguina
108-117 Korea
109-25 Ararat (remarkable detail)
109-52 Cyprus
109-53 Cyprus
109-54 Cyprus
109-55 Cyprus
110-08 Pinatubo
110-10 Pinatubo
110-26 Cheju-do
110-27 Cheju-do
110-31 Unzen. -- good detail
110-36 Fuji -- remarkable detail
110-50 Spanish delta
110-58 Sakurajima- good
110-59 Unzen-very good
111-60 Dead sea Fault
111-65 Center pivot irrigation and star sunes
111-84 Sakurajima --very good
112-18 coastal Madagascar
115-4 LA and smoke (taken 10-28-93)
The photographs can be purchased through the EROS Data Center
(605) 594-6151 or Technology Applications Center (505)277-3622.
Cindy Evans
Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project
evans@sn3.jsc.nasa.gov
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