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Info about Shuttle Flight STS- 27
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STS-27
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2..STS-27 Fact Sheet
3..Mission Control Update
4..Solid Rocket Booster Statement
5..Landing Statement
6..Landing Information
7..Post-Mission Summary
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STS-27
ATLANTIS
The newest of NASA'S fleet of Space Shuttle orbiters, Atlantis
(OV-104), will make its third flight on Dec. 1, 1988, on STS-27, a
classified mission for the Department of Defense. It will be the
second Shuttle flight since the 51-L accident in January 1986 and the
first of three national security missions to be conducted in fiscal
year 1989 by NASA for the Defense Department.
STS-27 will have a five-member crew. All are military personnel,
and three are veterans of previous Shuttle flights. STS-27 Mission
Commander Robert L. Gibson (Cdr., USN) was pilot on STS 41-B in
February 1984 and commander on 61-C in January 1986. Mission
Specialists Richard M. Mullane (Col., USAF) and Jerry L. Ross (Lt.
Col., USAF) flew on 41-D in August 1984 and 61-B in November 1985,
respectively. STS-27 will be the first space flight for Pilot Guy S.
Gardner (Lt. Col., USAF) and Mission Specialist William M. Shepherd
(Cdr., USN).
Atlantis will be launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch
Complex 39, Pad B. Because STS-27 is a national security mission,
details about the flight and payload are classified.
The Shuttle orbiter is launched into space like a conventional
rocket, but it returns to Earth like an unpowered glider. The orbiter
and two solid rocket boosters -- extensively redesigned since 51-L--
are mated to an external propellant tank in a vertical, or nose-up,
configuration for launch.
Following liftoff from the pad, the boosters will continue to
burn for a little more than two minutes, providing some 3.3 million
pounds of thrust apiece. The jettisoned SRBs are recovered for
refurbishment and use on later flights.
The orbiter's three main engines burn about six more minutes
after SRB separation. After main engine cutoff, the external tank is
jettisoned and disintegrates upon reentry into the Earth's
atmosphere.
The planned end-of-mission landing site for STS-27 is Edwards
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of the orbiter will be accomplished by a KSC recovery team of NASA
and contractor workers, aided by Department of Defense personnel.
Atlantis will be ferried back to KSC atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle
Carrier Aircraft. After demating at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility,
the orbiter will be towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility for
final deservicing and preparation for its next mission, STS-30 in
April 1989, when it is scheduled to loft the Magellan spacecraft on
its journey to map the surface of Venus.
Atlantis also is scheduled for the STS-34 mission in October
1989, to send the Galileo spacecraft on its long journey to explore
Jupiter and its satellites.
Ordered under a January 1979 contract between NASA and orbiter
prime manufacturer Rockwell International, Atlantis was delivered to
KSC in April 1985.
Like its two sister orbiters Discovery and Columbia, Atlantis is
named for a famous sailing ship. The Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute, a research facility, operated a two-masted ketch named
Atlantis that traversed more than half a million miles of the Earth's
surface between 1930 and 1966.
Atlantis has flown twice before: 51-J in October 1985, a
classified Department of Defense Mission; and 61-B in November 1985,
during which three satellites were deployed and two extravehicular
exercises were conducted by the crew.
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STS-27
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1..Main Menu
2..STS-27 Fact Sheet
3..Mission Control Update
4..Solid Rocket Booster Statement
5..Landing Statement
6..Landing Information
7..Post-Mission Summary
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STS-27
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1..Main Menu
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3..Mission Control Update
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5..Landing Statement
6..Landing Information
7..Post-Mission Summary
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Mission Control Center
Status Report
December 2, 1988
This is Mission Control Houston at 4 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds
mission elapsed time in the flight of STS-27. The crew of
Atlantis has been given a go for orbit operations by the Mission
Control Center. The Atlantis crewmembers are doing well and all
systems of the Orbiter are performing satisfactorily. This
concludes our launch phase real time commentary from the Mission
Control Center at 4 hours, 4 minutes mission elapsed time. This
is Mission Control Houston.
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Statement from Royce Mitchell, SRM Project Manager
"STS-27 Solid Rocket Booster recovery operations went
smoothly despite seas of 8 to 10 feet. Both boosters were at
Hangar AF* by late Saturday evening.
"Detailed external examination shows the boosters to be in
excellent shape. The field joint thermal protection system is in
good shape, also. The parachutes functioned normally with little
apparent damage.
"Personnel will be entering the boosters on Monday for
internal inspections. We expect the first joint disassembly
operations to begin in the next couple of days."
* Note: Hangar AF is the location of NASA's Solid Rocket
Booster Disassembly Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
SOURCE: Royce Mitchell
12/4/88
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STS-27 LANDING STATEMENT
NASA and the U.S. Air Force have announced that all systems on
board the Orbiter Atlantis continue to perform satisfactorily.
The left inboard main landing gear tire pressure is not a concern
for landing. The STS-27 crew is doing well and is beginning
landing preparations. Atlantis is scheduled to land Tuesday,
Dec. 6 at 5:36 p.m. Central Standard Time on Runway 17 at Edwards
Air Force Base, California. Weather forecast for landing is
favorable.
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ATLANTIS STATUS REPORT - WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1988
DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH FACILITY, EDWARDS, CALIF.
Atlantis touched down on Runway 17 yesterday at 3:35 p.m.
(PST) completing mission STS-27. Total mission elapsed time was 4
days, 9 hours, 6 minutes and 19 seconds (wheels stop).
Preliminary measurements indicate Atlantis' right main gear
touched down at the 1,469 foot mark, the left main gear touched
down at the 1,501 foot mark and the nose gear touched down at the
4,423 foot mark on the runway. Preliminary rollout distance is
7,138 feet.
The five member flight crew departed Dryden about 8 p.m.
last night and flew to Houston in a Shuttle Training Aircraft.
Workers began towing Atlantis from the lakebed runway to the
Mate Demate Device at 8:30 p.m. last night. By 10:55 p.m.,
Atlantis was at the Mate Demate Device where technicians have
been preparing the vehicle for its return trip to the Kennedy
Space Center.
Engineers performed an initial inspection of the thermal
protection system last night when the vehicle was still on the
runway. The tiles on the orbiter's forward right hand side (from
the nose landing gear door area to just forward of the wing)
sustained some damage. Some tiles will have to be removed prior
to Atlantis' next flight and others will be repaired. One tile
near the nose landing gear door area is missing and one
fiberglass carrier panel on the right hand orbital maneuvering
system pod is missing. This panel, located on the mid-lower
outboard side of the right pod, covers an area where the pod is
attached to the orbiter's fuselage. A thorough inspection of the
tiles will be performed today.
The brakes were removed and will be shipped to the vendor
for inspection. The left hand tires were removed and will be leak
checked here at Dryden before being shipped to the vendor for
analysis. Tire pressure readings will be recorded after the tire
temperature has stabilized over a period of time.
Other activities scheduled today include offloading the
residual liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen reactants from the
power reactant storage and distribution system, removing flight
crew equipment and preparations to purge the main engines.
Pending the completion of scheduled work and favorable
weather conditions, the ferry flight journey is expected to begin
Sunday, Dec. 11. The first leg of the journey will be from Dryden
to Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Because daylight is
shorter this time of year, the 747 and Atlantis will remain
overnight at Kelly and begin the second leg of the flight early
the next day.
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STS-27 Mission Summary
The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104), the youngest in NASA's
fleet, made its third flight in a classified mission for the
Department of Defense (DoD). The Dec. 2, 1988 mission also was the
third dedicated to the DoD. It was the 27th Space Shuttle mission.
Launch was originally scheduled Dec. 1, but was postponed one day
because of cloud cover and strong wind conditions. Liftoff from Pad
B, Launch Complex 39, KSC, on Dec. 2 was at 9:30 a.m. EST. The
Orbiter Atlantis touched down Dec. 6 at Runway 17, Edwards AFB, CA,
at 6:35 p.m. EST. The total mission elapsed time (wheels stop) was 4
days, 9 hours and 6 minutes.
The orbiter's Thermal Protection System tiles sustained
more-than-normal damage during the flight. A review panel
investigating the damage found that the most probable cause was
ablative insulating material from the right-hand solid rocket booster
nose cap hitting the orbiter about 85 seconds into the flight.
Also, one of the main engines' turbopumps was found to be
cracked after the flight.
Crew. Crew members, all military personnel, were Commander Robert L.
"Hoot" Gibson, Pilot Guy S. Gardner, and Mission Specialists Richard
M. Mullane, Jerry L. Ross, and William M. Shepherd. Gardner and
Shepherd were making their first flight.
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STS-27
0..Previous Menu
1..Main Menu
2..STS-27 Fact Sheet
3..Mission Control Update
4..Solid Rocket Booster Statement
5..Landing Statement
6..Landing Information
7..Post-Mission Summary
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