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Shuttle/Soyuz/ISS processing milestones
COMPILED BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Updated: June 20, 2006

Editor's Note...
Current as of 06/20/06. This calendar includes a few schedule conflicts that have not yet be resolved, i.e., arrival of a Progress supply ship at ISS during the STS-116 mission, etc. The date for the second of two upcoming space station spacewalks has not yet been set. NOTE: PRCB stands for program requirements change board.


DATE.......EVENT

06/26/06...ISS: 22 Progress docks at Pirs (12:27 p.m. EDT)
96/27/06...STS-121: Crew flies to KSC
06/28/06...STS-121: Countdown begins at 5 p.m.
06/29/06...STS-121: L-2 launch readiness review
06/29/06...STS-115: ET/SRB mating

07/01/06...STS-121: NASA TV coverage begins at 10 a.m.
07/01/06...Shuttle launch window opens
07/01/06...STS-121: Launch (3:49 p.m. EDT)
07/03/06...STS-121: Docking with ISS (11:25 a.m. EDT)
07/05/06...STS-121: Spacewalk No. 1 (10:24 a.m. EDT)
07/07/06...STS-121: Spacewalk No. 2 (9:54 a.m. EDT)
07/09/06...STS-121: Spacewalk No. 3 (only if mission extension approved)
07/11/06...STS-121: Undocking (07:43 a.m. EDT)
07/13/06...STS-121: Landing (MET: 11/18:57, or 10:46 a.m. EDT)
07/19/06...Shuttle daylight launch window closes
07/25/06...STS-115: Atlantis/external tank mating in VAB
07/27/06...STS-115: Payload to launch pad

08/01/06...STS-115: Shuttle stack rollout to launch pad
08/03/06...ISS: Spacewalk (Vinogradov and Williams)
08/09/06...STS-115: TCDT
08/16/06...ISS: 21 Progress undocks from Zvezda aft
08/22/06...ISS: Soyuz TMA-8 moves from FGB nadir to Zvezda aft port
08/28/06...Shuttle NET date (not opening of window)
08/29/06...STS-115: Launch (current estimate: 3:42 p.m. EDT; must
...........launch by Sept. 5 to permit on-time Soyuz TMA-9 launch)
08/30/06...STS-115: Docking with space station
08/??/06...ISS: U.S.-led spacewalk

09/06/06...STS-115: Undocking
09/09/06...STS-115: Landing
09/13/06...Shuttle launch window closes
09/14/06...ISS: Soyuz TMA-9 with ISS-14 crew launches
09/16/06...ISS: Soyuz TMA-9 docks at FGB nadir port
09/17/06...STS-116: ET-123 on dock at KSC (under review)
09/24/06...ISS: Soyuz TMA-8 with ISS-13 crew/tourist undocks from Zvezda aft

10/18/06...ISS: 23 Progress launches
10/20/06...ISS: 23 Progress docks with station
10/26/06...Shuttle launch window opens (if daylight required)
10/29/06...Shuttle launch window closes (based on daylight launch)

11/08/06...STS-116: Discovery/external tank mating in VAB
11/13/06...STS-116: Payload to launch pad
11/15/06...STS-116: Shuttle stack rollout to launch pad

12/01/06...STS-116: TCDT
12/13/06...STS-116: Launch (current estimate: 7:17 p.m. EST)
12/16/06...STS-116: Docking with space station
12/20/06...ISS: 24 Progress launches
12/22/06...ISS: 24 Progress docks with station
12/23/06...Shuttle launch window opens (if daylight required)
12/23/06...STS-116: Undocking
12/25/06...STS-116: Landing
12/25/06...Shuttle launch window closes (based on daylight launch)
MISSION INDEX