{"id":21140,"date":"2010-04-09T23:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T03:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/283236bec37107b2a49c5175224205a5"},"modified":"2010-04-09T23:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T03:23:37","slug":"mission-extended-to-facilitate-late-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=21140","title":{"rendered":"Mission Extended to Facilitate Late Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Control informed space shuttle Discovery Commander Alan Poindexter that mission managers are extending the flight by one day to enable a standard late inspection of the shuttle heat shield to occur while the shuttle is docked to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>  Since Discovery&#8217;s Ku-Band communications system is not functioning correctly, the space station&#8217;s Ku system will transmit the heat shield video and laser scan to Mission Control for imagery experts to analyze.<\/p>\n<p>  Landing now is targeted for 8:54 a.m. EDT Monday, April 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Control informed space shuttle Discovery Commander Alan Poindexter that mission managers are extending the flight by one day to enable a standard late inspection of the shuttle heat shield to occur while the shuttle is docked to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>  Since Discovery&#8217;s Ku-Band communications system is not functioning correctly, the space station&#8217;s Ku system will transmit the heat shield video and laser scan to Mission Control for imagery experts to analyze.<\/p>\n<p>  Landing now is targeted for 8:54 a.m. EDT Monday, April 19.<\/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-21140","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\/21140","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=21140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21140\/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=21140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}