{"id":112594,"date":"2011-07-20T01:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/5c14152538befe2163ddf906366632e4"},"modified":"2011-07-20T01:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T05:24:50","slug":"atlantis-flight-control-system-checks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=112594","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis&#8217; Flight Control System Checks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; astronauts activated one of the ship&#8217;s three auxiliary power units, APU 1, and performed a checkout of the orbiter&#8217;s flight control surfaces. This standard day-before-entry test assures the crew and Mission Control that Atlantis&#8217; elevons and speed brake will provide control once the shuttle enters the atmosphere for Thursday&#8217;s landing.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the crew will &#8220;hotfire&#8221; Atlantis&#8217; 44 reaction control system thruster jets to verify their ability to steer the shuttle through its entry profile before it encounters the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Flight Dynamics Officer in Mission Control has slightly updated the times for Atlantis&#8217; two Thursday landing opportunities at Kennedy Space Center: <\/p>\n<p>Orbit 200<br \/>Deorbit burn &#8211; 4:49:04 a.m. EDT<br \/>Landing &#8211; 5:56:58 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>Orbit 201<br \/>Deorbit burn &#8211; 6:25:44 a.m. EDT<br \/>Landing &#8211; 7:32:55 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; astronauts activated one of the ship&#8217;s three auxiliary power units, APU 1, and performed a checkout of the orbiter&#8217;s flight control surfaces. This standard day-before-entry test assures the crew and Mission Control that Atlantis&#8217; elevons and speed brake will provide control once the shuttle enters the atmosphere for Thursday&#8217;s landing.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the crew will &#8220;hotfire&#8221; Atlantis&#8217; 44 reaction control system thruster jets to verify their ability to steer the shuttle through its entry profile before it encounters the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Flight Dynamics Officer in Mission Control has slightly updated the times for Atlantis&#8217; two Thursday landing opportunities at Kennedy Space Center: <\/p>\n<p>Orbit 200<br \/>Deorbit burn &#8211; 4:49:04 a.m. EDT<br \/>Landing &#8211; 5:56:58 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>Orbit 201<br \/>Deorbit burn &#8211; 6:25:44 a.m. EDT<br \/>Landing &#8211; 7:32:55 a.m. EDT<\/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-112594","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\/112594","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=112594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112594\/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=112594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}