Technicians Replace Leak Source; Arm Evaluation Continues 
The source of the oxygen leak that delayed the launch of STS-113 on
Sunday - a faulty flex hose assembly - has been successfully replaced
inside Space Shuttle Endeavour. The new assembly and Endeavour's bulkhead
have been tested, X-rayed and cleared for flight. 

Meanwhile, evaluation continues of the damage that Endeavour's robot arm
sustained during the leak troubleshooting efforts. A team of robot arm
experts arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Wednesday and are planning
to perform ultrasound testing of the arm. Program managers are scheduled
to meet Friday to discuss the results of the tests and analysis. 

The robot arm will be used to lift the P1 (P-One) Truss out of the
payload bay and hand it to its station counterpart, Canadarm2. 

STS-113 is currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than 6-10 p.m. CST
Monday (0000-0400 GMT Tuesday). 


International Space Station Status Report #02-52 
4 p.m. CST, Friday, Nov. 15, 2002 
Expedition Five Crew

The Expedition 5 crewmembers - Commander Valery Korzun, NASA ISS Science
Officer Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev - spent their
23rd week in space continuing preparations for the arrival of their
replacements, the Expedition 6 crew. 

During the week, Expedition 5 packed, checked and labeled experiment
racks, and did a dry run of the installation of the Port One (P1) truss
segment onto the ISS using the Canadarm2. The crew also performed
maintenance on the VOA (volatile organics analyzer), which looks for
volatile organic compounds in the station's atmosphere, and replaced a
cable on the station's treadmill. They also set up the EarthKam equipment
to give over 2,000 students and teachers across the U.S. and Japan a
chance to take pictures of the Earth using a remotely controlled camera
aboard the station. Whitson deactivated the camera Friday, but Expedition
6 will reactivate it for use during its mission. 

The space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the Expedition 6 crew, along
with the P1 truss, to the station during the STS-113 mission. The P1 will
be the third segment of the station's integrated truss system to be
launched this year. Part of the station's backbone, it is one of 11 such
truss segments that will support cooling radiators power-producing solar
arrays and a railroad on which the Canadarm2 can move. 

Preparations continue for the launch next week of Endeavour to the ISS
next week. 

Information on the crew's activities, future launch dates, as well as
station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available
on the Internet at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov 

Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet site
administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov 

The next ISS status report will be incorporated into the first STS-113
mission status report beginning after the launch of Endeavour, or sooner,
if developments warrant.