MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-67 Status Report #15

Thursday, March 9, 1995; 5 p.m. CST

Endeavour and its seven-astronaut crew will pass the halfway mark of
this marathon flight this evening, and flight controllers report
consumables are adequate the support the full 15 1/2 days planned.

The Blue Team -- Payload Commander Tammy Jernigan, Mission Specialist
Wendy Lawrence and Payload Specialist Sam Durrance will sleep through
the milestone, awakening about 10 p.m. CST.

The Red Team -- Commander Steve Oswald, Pilot Bill Gregory, Mission
Specialist John Grunsfeld and Payload Specialist Ron Parise -- is
continuing to support the observations of the Astro-2 triad of
ultraviolet telescopes and work with several middeck experiments.

Oswald again worked with the Middeck Active Control Experiment as
Gregory pointed the shuttle so that the payload bay telescopes could
acquire their targets. Gregory also flew another simulation on the
PILOT landing trainer.  Grunsfeld and Parise directed the trio of
Astro-2 telescopes toward its targets.

Oswald, Grunsfeld and Gregory were interviewed by Glen Farley of
KING-TV in Seattle at 4:30 p.m.

All of the shuttle's systems continue to work well as it orbits the
Earth every 91 minutes at an altitude averaging 190 nautical miles.

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