{"id":21297,"date":"2010-04-11T03:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/d860adcebd12ad9f26ff3b07f4c53396"},"modified":"2010-04-11T03:29:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:29:49","slug":"spacewalkers-swapping-out-ammonia-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=21297","title":{"rendered":"Spacewalkers Swapping Out Ammonia Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson removed electrical connections and bolts that held a spent Ammonia Tank Assembly (ATA) on the International Space Station&#8217;s starboard truss. Then Jim Dutton and Stephanie Wilson plucked the refrigerator-sized ATA away and temporarily stowed it on a Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) cart.<\/p>\n<p>  Next, the station arm will retrieve a new ATA from the Payload Orbital Replacement Unit Attachment (POA) and install it on the truss, where the old ATA had been. <\/p>\n<p>  While the arm is retrieving the new ATA, Mastracchio and Anderson will install two radiator grapple fixture stowage beams on the station&#8217;s truss. The beams will be used to temporarily store handles that would be necessary if a radiator ever needed to be replaced during the life of the space station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson removed electrical connections and bolts that held a spent Ammonia Tank Assembly (ATA) on the International Space Station&#8217;s starboard truss. Then Jim Dutton and Stephanie Wilson plucked the refrigerator-sized ATA away and temporarily stowed it on a Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) cart.<\/p>\n<p>  Next, the station arm will retrieve a new ATA from the Payload Orbital Replacement Unit Attachment (POA) and install it on the truss, where the old ATA had been. <\/p>\n<p>  While the arm is retrieving the new ATA, Mastracchio and Anderson will install two radiator grapple fixture stowage beams on the station&#8217;s truss. The beams will be used to temporarily store handles that would be necessary if a radiator ever needed to be replaced during the life of the space station.<\/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-21297","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\/21297","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=21297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/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=21297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}