SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION SUMMARY INTRODUCTION

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1 ABOUT THE DOCUMENT THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND UPDATED OVER A 21-YEAR PERIOD. IT IS INTENDED TO BE A HANDY REFERENCE DOCUMENT, BASICALLY ONE PAGE PER FLIGHT, AND CARE HAS BEEN EXERCISED TO MAKE IT AS ERROR-FREE AS POSSIBLE FOR A DOCUMENT WITHOUT FORMAL REVIEW PROCESS. THIS DOCUMENT IS BASICALLY AS FLOWN DATA AND HAS BEEN COMPILED FROM MANY SOURCES INCLUDING FLIGHT LOGS, FLIGHT RULES, FLIGHT ANOMALY LOGS, MOD FLIGHT DESCENT SUMMARY, POST FLIGHT ANALYSIS OF MPS PROPELLANTS, FDRD, FRD, SODB, AND THE MER SHUTTLE FLIGHT DATA AND INFLIGHT ANOMALY LIST. ORBIT DISTANCE TRAVELED IS TAKEN FROM THE PAO MISSION STATISTICS. ROBERT D. BOB LEGLER AUTHORED THIS BOOK THROUGH FLIGHT STS-115. COMMENTS MAY BE DIRECTED TO NASA JSC, DA8/F. V. BENNETT, TELEPHONE SPECIAL ENTRIES (SEVERAL ENTRIES HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED SEQUENTIAL NUMBERS FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES) FLIGHT NUMBERS - THE FLIGHT NUMBERS INCLUDE THE OFFICIAL FLIGHT DESIGNATOR, FOLLOWED BY ORIGINAL FLIGHT DESIGNATOR/KSC FLIGHT DESIGNATOR, THE SEQUENTIAL FLIGHT NUMBER, THE KSC LAUNCH SEQUENTIAL NUMBER, THE OFT FLIGHT NUMBER (AS APPLICABLE), THE ISS FLIGHT NUMBER,THE LAUNCH PAD SEQUENTIAL NUMBER, AND MLP USED. CREWMEMBER FLIGHT DESIGNATORS - NUMBERS RELATED TO SPACE SHUTTLE (SS) FLIGHTS ONLY: P = SEQUENTIAL NUMBER OF PERSON FLOWN ON SS; R = SS ROOKIE NUMBER; V = SS VETERAN NUMBER (SECOND FLIGHT ON SS); M = SS MALE NUMBER; F = SS FEMALE NUMBER. NO ATTEMPT IS MADE TO DETERMINE WHICH SEAT ARRIVES IN ORBIT ON THE SAME FLIGHT. EXAMPLE: P17/R2/V1/M2 - PERSON 17, ROOKIE 2, VETERAN 1, MALE 2. ONCE ASSIGNED A NUMBER, THE CREWMEMBER RETAINS THOSE R, V, M OR F NUMBERS. ONLY THE P NUMBER WOULD CHANGE ON SUBSEQUENT FLIGHTS. EVA S - RELATES TO ONLY SS EVA S. INCLUDES TYPE OF EVA, DATES/TIMES PF EVA S, EVA CREWMEMBER NAMES, AND SEQUENTIAL NUMBER OF SS EVA S AND EVA TIMES. FLIGHT DIRECTORS - THE FLIGHT DIRECTORS AND MISSION OPERATIONS DIRECTOR ARE LISTED FOR EACH FLIGHT. LAUNCH/LIFTOFF/ASCENT DATA - INCLUDES PAD NUMBER, LIFTOFF TIMES (PLANNED AND ACTUAL IN EASTERN TIME ZONE AND GMTLO TIME), DATE OF LAUNCH FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER INDICATING HOW MANY SS FLIGHTS HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED ON THAT MONTH TO DATE, DAY-OF-WEEK LAUNCH FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER INDICATING HOW MANY SS FLIGHTS WERE LAUNCHED ON THE DAY OF THE WEEK, WINDOW DURATION AND CLOSURE RATIONALE, PLANNED LANDING SITES INCLUDING THOSE SELECTED ON DAY OF LAUNCH, ASCENT EVENTS, AND ABORT CALLS. IN THE LATER FLIGHTS, THERE ARE TWO COLUMNS FOR THE ASCENT EVENTS. THE LEFT COLUMN IS PLANNED MET S AND VELOCITIES, AND THE RIGHT SIDE IS THE ACTUAL MET S AND VELOCITIES FOR THE SPECIFIED EVENTS. iii February 2007

2 ENTRY/LANDING DATA - INCLUDES LANDING SITE/RUNWAY FOLLOWED BY A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER INDICATING THE NUMBER OF CONCRETE/LAKEBED LANDINGS AT EDW OR A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER FOR LANDINGS AT NOR AND KSC. LANDING TIME IS IN LOCAL TIME FOR THE LANDING SITE. THE LANDING DAY OF WEEK IS FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER INDICATING HOW MANY LANDINGS HAVE BEEN MADE ON THAT DAY OF THE WEEK. THE NUMBER AFTER THE LANDING DATE IS THE SEQUENTIAL NUMBER OF LANDINGS DURING THAT MONTH, I.E., 4/2/92 (7), STS-45 IS THE SEVENTH LANDING IN APRIL. EACH ORBIT DIRECTION FOR LANDING IS FOLLOWED BY A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER. THE WINDS ARE DESIGNATED IN KNOTS OF HEAD, TAIL AND LEFT AND RIGHT CROSSWINDS. THE FIRST LISTING WAS OBTAINED FROM THE MOD DESCENT POSTFLIGHT SUMMARY AND IS BASICALLY THE WINDS OBSERVED ON A DISPLAY AT THE TOUCHDOWN TIME. THE SECOND LISTING IS THE OFFICIAL WINDS, WHICH ARE THE 2-MINUTE AVERAGE WINDS SPANNING THE MLG TOUCHDOWN TIME. THE FLIGHT DURATIONS ARE PROVIDED IN DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, AND SECONDS AND HOURS, MINUTES, AND SECONDS FROM LIFTOFF TO MLG TOUCHDOWN. S/T - SHUTTLE TOTAL FLIGHT TIME, I.E., ACCUMULATED TOTAL. THIS IS FOLLOWED BY AN ORBITER DESIGNATOR AND THE ACCUMULATED FLIGHT TIME FOR THAT ORBITER. SSME - INCLUDES NOMINAL, ABORT, AND EMERGENCY THROTTLES, PREDICTED AND ACTUAL THROTTLE PROFILE, AND ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS FOLLOWED BY THE NUMBER OF FLIGHTS ON THAT ENGINE. FOR A LACK OF SPACE ELSEWHERE, THE MACH 3 END-OF-MISSION WEIGHTS AND X CG AND LANDING WEIGHT AND X CG HAVE BEEN ADDED IN THIS COLUMN. SRB/SRM/RSRM - INCLUDES THE BUILD ITEM NUMBER FOLLOWED BY SRM/RSRM TYPE OR NUMBER. ET COLUMN - INCLUDES ET NUMBERS, ET RUPTURE AND BREAKUP ALTITUDES AND TIMES IN MET, AND TUMBLE VALVE USE. THESE TIMES AND ALTITUDES ARE NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR FLIGHTS AFTER STS-46. INCLINATION - THIS IS THE INCLINATION AFTER OMS-2 AND IS FOLLOWED BY A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER INDICATING HOW MANY FLIGHTS WERE FLOWN AT THAT INCLINATION. INCLINATIONS BETWEEN AND HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED THE SAME FOR THE PURPOSES OF ASSIGNING SEQUENTIAL NUMBERS. ORBIT HA/HP - INSERTIONS WERE STANDARD INSERTIONS UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATING DIRECT INSERTION. GENERALLY, ALTITUDES FOR POST OMS-2 ARE GIVEN, AS WELL AS PAYLOAD DEPLOY ALTITUDES AND DEORBIT ALTITUDE. FLIGHT SOFTWARE DESIGNATORS - OI NUMBERS ARE FOLLOWED BY A SEQUENTIAL FLIGHT NUMBER FOR THAT OI. iv February 2007

3 PAYLOAD COLUMN - INCLUDES CARGO, CHARGEABLE, DEPLOYED, NON-DEPLOYED, AND MIDDECK WEIGHTS AS DOCUMENTED IN THE SODB. THE FOLLOWING SHUTTLE ACCUMULATED WEIGHTS ARE PROVIDED: (1) TOTAL PAYLOAD DEPLOYED WEIGHTS LEFT IN ORBIT, (2) TOTAL NON-DEPLOYED PAYLOAD WEIGHTS (DOES NOT INCLUDE ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT SUCH AS ASE, CABLING, ETC.), AND (3) TOTAL CARGO WEIGHTS WHICH INCLUDE ALL ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. WEIGHTS FOR SEVEN DOD FLIGHTS ARE NOT INCLUDED. PERFORMANCE MARGINS: FOUR NUMBERS ARE PROVIDED - (1) FLIGHT PLANNING RESERVE (FPR); (2) FUEL BIAS; (3) FINAL TDDP IS MARGIN ABOVE FPR, AND FUEL BIAS USING MEAN WIND AND ATMOSPHERE FOR LAUNCH MONTH, NO UNPLANNED DRAINBACK AND FINAL SELECTED I-LOAD; AND (4) RECON IS MARGIN ABOVE MET WIND AND ATMOSPHERE, ANY UNPLANNED DRAINBACK, FINAL ESTIMATED MPS LOADS (A.K.A., RECONSTRUCTED SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE). IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT STS-27 DELTA MARGIN WAS -295 LBS FOR DRAINBACK, -365 LBS FOR WIND/ATMOSPHERE. STS-31 DELTA MARGIN WAS -753 LBS FOR DRAINBACK, +461 LBS FOR WIND/ATMOSPHERE. STS-41 WAS -358 LBS FOR DRAINBACK, -488 LBS FOR WIND/ATMOSPHERE. PAYLOADS ARE IDENTIFIED AS BEING PRIMARY, PAYLOAD BAY (PLB), AND/OR MIDDECK PAYLOADS. PAYLOAD COLUMN ALSO CONTAINS THE NUMBER OF CRYO TANK SETS AND WHETHER AN RMS WAS FLOWN FOLLOWED BY A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER AND SERIAL NUMBER OF THE RMS. MISSION HIGHLIGHTS/MISCELLANEOUS DATA COLUMN - INCLUDES THE NUMBER OF KSC WORKDAYS IN OPF, AT VAB, AT PAD, AND THE TOTAL WORKDAYS. LAUNCH POSTPONEMENTS MAY NOT CONTAIN EARLY POSTPONEMENTS. POSTPONEMENTS ARE DEFINED AS LAUNCH DELAYS WHICH OCCURRED PRIOR TO CALL-TO-STATIONS FOR OMI S0007 SHUTTLE COUNTDOWN. SCRUBS ARE LAUNCH DATE CHANGES AFTER THE START OF SHUTTLE COUNTDOWN (COUNTDOWN WAS TERMINATED OR RECYCLED TO A LATER LAUNCH DATE). LAUNCH DELAYS ARE DELAYS WHICH OCCUR ONLY ON THE DAY OF LAUNCH. OTHER DATA INCLUDED ARE TAL WEATHER DATA, NIGHT LAUNCH AND NIGHT LANDING SEQUENTIAL NUMBERS, FLIGHT DURATION CHANGES, LANDING SITE CHANGES, FIRSTS, EVENTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ANOMALIES AS JUDGED BY THE COMPILER (NOT ALL ANOMALIES ARE INCLUDED). USE OF ALTERNATE AND DOLILU I-LOADS ARE INCLUDED WITH A SEQUENTIAL NUMBER FOR UPLINKS. STS-27 WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT WITH THE CAPABILITY TO UPLINK ALTERNATE I-LOADS FOR USE AND STS-48 WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT WITH DOLILU CAPABILITY. RENDEZVOUS OPERATIONS ARE IDENTIFIED INCLUDING THE TARGET AND SEQUENTIAL NUMBER OF EACH SPACE SHUTTLE RENDEZVOUS. SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT WEIGHT SUMMARY - THE DATA FOR FLIGHTS STS-1 THROUGH STS-57 WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE SODB, VOLUME II. EFFECTIVE WITH STS-51, THE SODB DATA IS NO LONGER UPDATED AS FLOWN. THEREFORE, THE DATA HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE DAY-OF-LAUNCH TDDP, WITH MACH 3 EOM AND LANDING WEIGHTS/CG S FROM THE POSTFLIGHT PROP 30 REPORTS. THE PERFORMANCE MARGIN DATA WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE RI POSTFLIGHT TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION REPORTS. STARTING WITH STS-75, THE PROGRAM AGREED TO A 900-LB APM GAIN FOR ALL MISSIONS. STS-75 AND STS-76 HAVE 900 LBS OF INERT WEIGHT ADJUSTMENT (-450 LBS INERT WEIGHT DISCREPANCY ADJUSTMENT AND -450 LBS PERFORMANCE DISCREPANCY ADJUSTMENT, WHICH WERE SUBTRACTED FROM THE STS OPERATOR CHARGEABLE CARGO). EFFECTIVE WITH STS-77, THE -450 LBS WAS SUBTRACTED FROM THE STS OPERATOR CHARGEABLE CARGO AND THE -450 LBS PERFORMANCE DISCREPANCY IS INCLUDED IN THE MPS PROP INVENTORY. EFFECTIVE WITH STS-79, THE PERFORMANCE ADJUSTMENT WAS CHANGED TO -200 LBS WHICH IS SUBTRACTED FROM THE STS OPERATIONS CHARGEABLE CARGO. THE P/L DEPLOYED WEIGHTS v February 2007

4 FOR MIR FLIGHTS REFLECT THE WEIGHTS OF HARDWARE TRANSFERRED TO THE MIR (DOES NOT INCLUDE CONSUMABLES TRANSFERRED TO MIR). vi February 2007

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