WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR WEEK ENDING 15 SEPTEMBER 2000:
PAYLOAD HIGHLIGHT
The gyroscope replacement team has successfully completed a leak test of the flight probe. The telescope test team has verfied that the telescope
and DPAs are functional. The team members involved in this work are Ken Bower, Bruce Clarke, Bob Farley, and Russ Leese.
Photo: Ken Bower cleaning the probe under monochromatic light before vacuum can insertion.
Please click the small photo to see an explanation of the
remarkable change-out of Gyro #4
SPACE VEHICLE HIGHLIGHT
The protoqual Solar Array Release Mechanism (SARM) successfully completed high and low-temperature vacuum release operation in LM B/255.
Photo: LM Engineer Dennis St.Clair with the SARM thermal vacuum chamber in LM B/255. Not pictured: Sean McCully