Feb 5 1982
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced a week-long series of Shuttle checks to verify readiness for launch. Prime and backup crew members would fly a mock liftoff, return to launch site, and descend from orbit to a simulated landing on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The first 99 hours would be checkout of individual orbiter systems (electrical distribution, environmental-control, instrumentation, flight control, and propulsion), the external tank (power, instrumentation, range safety, and tumble-valve systems), and solid-fuel rocket boosters (hydraulic, electrical, instrumentation, and range-safety systems) as well as critical electrical and mechanical connections between Shuttle elements.
The second part of the tests would simulate portions of the mission, the launch, a return-to-launch-site abort with the orbiter's system in control, and descent from orbit. (NASA Release 82-19)
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