STS-49 MCC Status Report #13 

                      MISSION CONTROL CENTER
                     STS-49 Status Report #13


Tuesday, May 12, 1992, 9 a.m.

Planning shift flight controllers continue to work out the
schedule for the Endeavour's crew.  A light day is planned.

Wake-up is scheduled for about 9:40 a.m. CDT Tuesday.  About an
hour after being awakened, the crew will be asked to perform a
water dump using the flash evaporator system.  Use of the FES
prevents the water dump from imparting unwanted motion on the
orbiter.

The crew will perform some scheduled maintenance, some
troubleshooting of earlier difficulty in focusing the Hasselblad
camera, and reconnection and tightening of a small threaded
electrical connector on Rick Hieb's space suit that caused some
minor drop outs of biomedical data.

The light day is designed to rest the crew for a third attempt to
capture the Intelsat satellite on Wednesday, this time
using methods other than the capture bar.  Mission Specialist
Pierre Thuot made five unsuccessful attempts Monday to use a
spring-loaded capture bar to grapple Intelsat.

Intelsat was never designed to be retrieved from on orbit, and has
no grapple fixtures or appendages.  The "Team 4" tiger team will
reconvene later this morning to resume its consideration of other
capture methods.

The latest tracking data on Intelsat indicates that it is about 49
nautical miles in front of Endeavour, separating by about 11
nautical miles an orbit.  By the time of today's first phasing
maneuver, it should be over 90 nautical miles away.