[Downloaded from NASA Spacelink]

STS-62 Status Report #16
Mission Control Center


Friday, March 11, 1994
4 p.m. CST

Columbia continues to provide a stable platform for the U.S. Microgravity
Payload and Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology instruments in the
payload bay, as well as a host of materials processing, biomedical and
technology development experiments inside the crew cabin.

Also today, Mission Specialist Marsha Ivins was interviewed by students at the
Bronx High School of Science.

The STS-62 crew began its sleep shift on time at 1:53 p.m.  CST, and will
awaken at 9:53 p.m.  CST to begin its ninth day of orbit operations.

Flight controllers in Houston were putting the finishing touches on a plan to
uplink more digital video to the crew tomorrow.  The plan requires procedural
changes on the ground, but no action by the crew.

During the latter part of the day on Saturday, the crew will unlatch the
shuttle's robot arm and use it to help troubleshoot some off-nominal reception
from the Experimental Investigation of Spacecraft Glow instrument in the
payload bay.  The arm's end effector camera will be used to get a birds-eye
view of EISG in operation.

Columbia continues to circle the globe in a 160 by 163 nautical mile orbit with
its tail pointing toward the Earth and its payload bay pointing in the
direction of travel.  All orbiter systems are working well.