{"id":2851,"date":"2009-08-30T20:08:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/2b26251014c26b475013dc4be8e11c99"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:08:50","slug":"shuttle-performs-rendezvous-pitch-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Performs Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 8:03 p.m. EDT, space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s Commander Rick Sturckow began the planned Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, guiding the shuttle through a nine-minute back flip while space station crew members Gennady Padalka and Mike Barratt snap digital pictures with  400- and 800-millimeter lenses. Taken from a distance of about 600 feet, these high-resolution images will be downlinked to Mission Control in Houston, where experts will use them to evaluate the condition of Discovery&#8217;s heat shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8:03 p.m. EDT, space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s Commander Rick Sturckow began the planned Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, guiding the shuttle through a nine-minute back flip while space station crew members Gennady Padalka and Mike Barratt snap digital pictures with  400- and 800-millimeter lenses. Taken from a distance of about 600 feet, these high-resolution images will be downlinked to Mission Control in Houston, where experts will use them to evaluate the condition of Discovery&#8217;s heat shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","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\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/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=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}