{"id":2478,"date":"2009-08-13T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/e48ca934d0aa263c16c564ec71783377"},"modified":"2009-08-13T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:22:37","slug":"crew-begins-sleep-shifting-as-launch-preps-move-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Crew Begins Sleep Shifting as Launch  Preps Move Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven astronauts who will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery began subtle changes in their daily routine to adjust their body clocks for the mission&#8217;s schedule. The process is called sleep-shifting and it basically gets the crew members accustomed to being awake when they wouldn&#8217;t normally be. Discovery is targeted to launch on Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are also performing their own tasks at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A to ready Discovery for its flight. While those careful preparations continue, teams will analyze foam loss from the external tanks on the STS-125 and STS-127 missions. Also, with the program-level Flight Readiness Review completed, officials are getting ready for the higher-level FRR Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven astronauts who will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery began subtle changes in their daily routine to adjust their body clocks for the mission&#8217;s schedule. The process is called sleep-shifting and it basically gets the crew members accustomed to being awake when they wouldn&#8217;t normally be. Discovery is targeted to launch on Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are also performing their own tasks at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A to ready Discovery for its flight. While those careful preparations continue, teams will analyze foam loss from the external tanks on the STS-125 and STS-127 missions. Also, with the program-level Flight Readiness Review completed, officials are getting ready for the higher-level FRR Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","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\/2478","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2486"}],"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=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}