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From: starrfie@hydro.la.asu.edu (Sumner Starrfield) Subject: Status # 18 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 9:14:47 MST MISSION CONTROL CENTER STS-61 Status Report #18 Friday, December 10, 1993, 7 p.m. CST Flight controllers on the ground let the seven-member crew of Endeavour sleep in Friday evening, providing a welcome respite for the Hubble Space Telescope servicing team. The official flight plan called for the crew members to be awakened at 5:57 p.m. CST, but before signing off for the night, spacecraft communicator Greg Harbaugh told them that ground controllers would wait for them to call down following their sleep shift. Schedulers have planned a light day for the hard-working crew. The most significant activites planned are repressurizing of the crew cabin to 14.7 pounds per square inch and a simultaneous supply and waste water dump scheduled to begin at 8:57 p.m. CST (MET 8/17:30). Landing remains scheduled for 1:08 a.m. Monday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, weather permitting. Endeavour has enough consumables on-board to stay in orbit for at least one-and-a-half days longer, if necessary. All Endeavour systems continue to perform well as the orbiter circles every 96 minutes approximately 320 nautical miles above Earth.
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