NOTE: This is an orbiter processing report and does not reflect the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. Visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm on the KSC Home Page for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions.

• VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
• LOCATION: Launch Pad 39B
• TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 8, 2000 at 8:45 a.m. EDT (preferred launch time)
• TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 19, 2000 at about 4:45 a.m.
• LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 1/2 to 5 minutes
• MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 19 hours and 9 minutes
• CREW: Wilcutt, Altman, Lu, Malenchenko, Morukov, Mastracchio, Burbank
• ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 177 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Shuttle Processing Note: Final preparation is being made at KSC for the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Friday morning. No significant issues are being worked by the launch team at this time. Engineers completed operations to load orbiter Atlantis' onboard cryogenic tanks yesterday. This afternoon, the Rotating Service Structure was rolled away from the Shuttle.

Mission managers will assemble in the standard pre-tanking meeting at 11 p.m. tonight for a weather briefing and to give the go ahead for tanking operations to begin. Loading of the external tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid propellant is scheduled to begin at about 11:20 p.m. tonight.

Preliminary weather forecasts indicate a 40 percent chance of unfavorable conditions on Friday. Weather officials expect clouds to be scattered to broken at 3,000 feet and scattered at 25,000 feet; visibility at 7 miles; wind from the North Northeast at 8 peaking to 12 knots; temperature at 74 degrees F; relative humidity at 82 percent; and a chance of coastal showers. The primary concerns are showers and a low cloud ceiling. The 24-hour delay forecast indicates a 40 percent chance of unfavorable weather.

Milestones:
Flight crew equipment late stow - Sept. 7
Rotating Service Structure retracted - Sept. 7 at 12:30 p.m.
External tank loading begins - Sept. 7 at about 11:20 p.m.