{"id":219574,"date":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/marshall\/multimedia\/photos\/2014\/super-guppy-cryotank.html"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:00:00","slug":"nasas-super-guppy-makes-a-special-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219574","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Super Guppy Makes a Special Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Super Guppy, a wide-bodied cargo aircraft, landed at the Redstone Army Airfield near Huntsville, Ala. on March 26 with a special delivery: an innovative composite rocket fuel tank. The tank was manufactured at the Boeing Developmental Center in Tukwila, Wash. The tank will be unloaded from the Super Guppy, which has a hinged nose that opens and allows large cargos like the tank to be easily unloaded. After the tank is removed from the Super Guppy, it will be inspected and prepared for testing at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The composite tank project is part of the Game Changing Development Program and NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/MSFC\/Emmett Given<br \/>\n\u203a Alternate view #1<br \/>\n\t\u203a Alternate view #2<br \/>\n\t\u203a Flickr: Super Guppy and Cryotank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Super Guppy, a wide-bodied cargo aircraft, landed at the Redstone Army Airfield near Huntsville, Ala. on March 26 with a special delivery: an innovative composite rocket fuel tank. The tank was manufactured at the Boeing Developmental Center in Tukwila, Wash. The tank will be unloaded from the Super Guppy, which has a hinged nose that opens and allows large cargos like the tank to be easily unloaded. After the tank is removed from the Super Guppy, it will be inspected and prepared for testing at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The composite tank project is part of the Game Changing Development Program and NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/MSFC\/Emmett Given<br \/>\n\u203a Alternate view #1<br \/>\n\t\u203a Alternate view #2<br \/>\n\t\u203a Flickr: Super Guppy and Cryotank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219574","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219582,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219574\/revisions\/219582"}],"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=219574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}