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STS-92
Ascent Events Summary
COMPILED
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Updated: October 10, 2000
Changes
and additions:
1. Updating to reflect launch delay to Oct. 11
Background:
The
space shuttle can reach a runway or a lower-than-planned orbit in
the event of a single main engine failure at any point after liftoff.
For Discovery's flight, an engine failure in the first two minutes
and 16 seconds of flight would result in a return-to-launch-site
- RTLS - abort. Between 2:17 and 4:22, an engine failure would result
in a trans-Atlantic landing - TAL - in either Spain or Africa. After
four minutes and 23 seconds, Discovery would be able to abort into
a safe but lower-than-planned orbit, or ATO. The only in-flight
abort in shuttle history was an ATO on July 29, 1985, when Challenger's
center engine shut down five minutes and 45 seconds into the 19th
shuttle mission (STS-51F).
NOTE: Inertial velocity includes contribution from Earth's
rotation.
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At a glance
Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103)
Mission: STS-92/ISS 3A
Payload: Z-1 truss & PMA-3
Launch date: Oct. 11, 2000
Launch time: 7:17 p.m. EDT (2317 GMT)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Landing date: Oct. 24, 2000
Landing time: 3:28 p.m. EDT (1928 GMT)
Landing site: KSC
Crew: Duffy, Melroy, Chiao, McArthur, Wisoff, Lopez-Alegria, Wakata
Flight Data File
 Quick look data - Facts, figures and important information about the mission.
Flight plan - A detailed day-by-day timetable of the major mission events based on NASA's official flight plan.
Mission hardware - The major components and equipments that make up the shuttle vehicle for STS-92.
The crew - Meet the seven astronauts who will fly aboard shuttle Discovery.
Key personnel - Listing of the major people behind the shuttle flight.
Space demographics before and after - How the space explorers numbers will stack up before and after STS-92.
Tracking spacecraft - Latest orbital data for tracking the shuttle, station and other satellites on your computer.
Explore the Net - A list of useful links to other Internet sites with information related to STS-92.
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