{"id":112507,"date":"2011-07-19T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/dc051d3fce891b0e620b38ecde334c77"},"modified":"2011-07-19T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:45:53","slug":"crew-completes-late-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=112507","title":{"rendered":"Crew Completes Late Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew completed today&#8217;s inspection of the shuttle&#8217;s thermal protection system at 10:30 a.m. EDT. They used the 50-foot long Orbiter Boom Sensor System to conduct a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry&#8212;the wing leading edges and nose cap. Managers and engineers in Mission Control will review the data today and tomorrow to validate the heat shield&#8217;s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the final use of the shuttle&#8217;s robotic arm, dating back to its inaugural flight on the shuttle Columbia in October 1981on the STS-2 mission, operated by Commander Richard Truly and Pilot Joe Engle for approximately 10 hours of checkout operations. Canadarm deployed and retrieved its first payload, the Plasma Diagnostic Package, on Columbia&#8217;s STS-3 mission of Commander Jack Lousma and Pilot Gordon Fullerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew completed today&#8217;s inspection of the shuttle&#8217;s thermal protection system at 10:30 a.m. EDT. They used the 50-foot long Orbiter Boom Sensor System to conduct a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry&#8212;the wing leading edges and nose cap. Managers and engineers in Mission Control will review the data today and tomorrow to validate the heat shield&#8217;s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the final use of the shuttle&#8217;s robotic arm, dating back to its inaugural flight on the shuttle Columbia in October 1981on the STS-2 mission, operated by Commander Richard Truly and Pilot Joe Engle for approximately 10 hours of checkout operations. Canadarm deployed and retrieved its first payload, the Plasma Diagnostic Package, on Columbia&#8217;s STS-3 mission of Commander Jack Lousma and Pilot Gordon Fullerton.<\/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-112507","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\/112507","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=112507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112543,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112507\/revisions\/112543"}],"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=112507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}