{"id":110136,"date":"2011-07-07T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T21:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/7781354191dfc48cf98201ee9532c655"},"modified":"2011-07-07T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T21:45:59","slug":"engineering-review-board-meeting-ends-with-decision-to-continue-with-launch-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=110136","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Review Board Meeting Ends With Decision to Continue With Launch Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space Shuttle Atlantis launch preparations continue on schedule despite inclement weather near the launch pad near midday Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> As engineers prepared to move the Rotating Service Structure away from Atlantis, a severe thunderstorm passed overhead, delivering rain and lightning that produced two strikes near the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p> Data review showed the two strikes occurred at 12:31 p.m. and 12:40 p.m. EDT. The first struck the water tower 515 feet (157 meters) from the pad and the second struck the beach area northeast of the pad.<\/p>\n<p> So far, the data review indicates no issues with any systems, including shuttle Atlantis, External Tank, Solid Rocket Boosters, Space Shuttle Main Engines or Ground Support Equipment.<\/p>\n<p> Review of the data will occur again during the traditional \u201cTanking Weather Meeting\u201d scheduled for 1:30 a.m. Friday, which is the point where managers will decide to proceed with fueling Atlantis\u2019 tank ahead of launch. Fueling is scheduled to start at 2:01 a.m. Friday leading to launch at 11:26 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Shuttle Atlantis launch preparations continue on schedule despite inclement weather near the launch pad near midday Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> As engineers prepared to move the Rotating Service Structure away from Atlantis, a severe thunderstorm passed overhead, delivering rain and lightning that produced two strikes near the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p> Data review showed the two strikes occurred at 12:31 p.m. and 12:40 p.m. EDT. The first struck the water tower 515 feet (157 meters) from the pad and the second struck the beach area northeast of the pad.<\/p>\n<p> So far, the data review indicates no issues with any systems, including shuttle Atlantis, External Tank, Solid Rocket Boosters, Space Shuttle Main Engines or Ground Support Equipment.<\/p>\n<p> Review of the data will occur again during the traditional \u201cTanking Weather Meeting\u201d scheduled for 1:30 a.m. Friday, which is the point where managers will decide to proceed with fueling Atlantis\u2019 tank ahead of launch. Fueling is scheduled to start at 2:01 a.m. Friday leading to launch at 11:26 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}