{"id":15091,"date":"2010-03-10T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/8691e121edf7a7313a48b24808726d4b"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:03:31","slug":"discoverys-review-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=15091","title":{"rendered":"Discovery&#8217;s Review Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for the STS-131 mission are under way on several fronts today as Space Shuttle Program managers begin meeting to discuss Discovery&#8217;s readiness for flight. The meeting is a precursor to the agency&#8217;s executive-level review on March 26, which will establish a firm launch date for this next mission to the International Space Station. The launch is now targeted for April 5.<\/p>\n<p>Launch Pad 39A technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue preparations to service Discovery&#8217;s hypergolic system in addition to performing leak checks on the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate quick disconnects.<\/p>\n<p>In Houston, the STS-131 astronauts continue their work at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center as they participate in robotics and spacewalk system refresher training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for the STS-131 mission are under way on several fronts today as Space Shuttle Program managers begin meeting to discuss Discovery&#8217;s readiness for flight. The meeting is a precursor to the agency&#8217;s executive-level review on March 26, which will establish a firm launch date for this next mission to the International Space Station. The launch is now targeted for April 5.<\/p>\n<p>Launch Pad 39A technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue preparations to service Discovery&#8217;s hypergolic system in addition to performing leak checks on the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate quick disconnects.<\/p>\n<p>In Houston, the STS-131 astronauts continue their work at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center as they participate in robotics and spacewalk system refresher training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15091","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\/15091","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/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=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}