{"id":110436,"date":"2011-07-08T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T23:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/25ee79dd49b538180020a1187ee9f8bd"},"modified":"2011-07-08T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T23:01:22","slug":"crew-checks-out-robotic-arm-surveys-oms-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=110436","title":{"rendered":"Crew Checks Out Robotic Arm, Surveys OMS Pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After launching from Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s historic Launch Pad 39A at 11:29 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew has begun orbit operations in earnest, preparing to dock to the International Space Station at 11:06 a.m. Sunday morning. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are activating and checking out the shuttle robotic arm this evening in preparation for a standard survey of Atlantis&#8217; Orbital Maneuvering System pods at 6:49 p.m. EDT. Prior to that, at 6:44 p.m., the crew will play back video they recorded from Atlantis&#8217; window 4 of the external tank separation. The crew sleep period begins at 7:59 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Television also will air two special videos this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Day 2 begins with crew wake up at 3:59 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After launching from Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s historic Launch Pad 39A at 11:29 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew has begun orbit operations in earnest, preparing to dock to the International Space Station at 11:06 a.m. Sunday morning. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are activating and checking out the shuttle robotic arm this evening in preparation for a standard survey of Atlantis&#8217; Orbital Maneuvering System pods at 6:49 p.m. EDT. Prior to that, at 6:44 p.m., the crew will play back video they recorded from Atlantis&#8217; window 4 of the external tank separation. The crew sleep period begins at 7:59 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Television also will air two special videos this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Day 2 begins with crew wake up at 3:59 a.m. Saturday.<\/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-110436","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\/110436","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=110436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110436\/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=110436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}