{"id":32243,"date":"2010-06-04T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/b816be2cc2cdabde21591f3e3642ac2d"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T13:48:05","slug":"discovery-oms-pod-removal-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=32243","title":{"rendered":"Discovery OMS Pod Removal Under Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are removing the right-hand orbital maneuvering system pod from space shuttle Discovery as the shuttle moves through its processing schedule for STS-133. The OMS pod, which houses a large thruster and several smaller steering thrusters, will be taken to the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility after it is taken off Discovery. The oxygen tank for the shuttle&#8217;s Power Reactant Storage Distribution System is also being removed from Discovery as part of the processing. The PRSD provides reactants to the fuel cells during a flight to produce electricity.<\/p>\n<p>  The shuttle is targeted for launch Sept. 16 on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are removing the right-hand orbital maneuvering system pod from space shuttle Discovery as the shuttle moves through its processing schedule for STS-133. The OMS pod, which houses a large thruster and several smaller steering thrusters, will be taken to the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility after it is taken off Discovery. The oxygen tank for the shuttle&#8217;s Power Reactant Storage Distribution System is also being removed from Discovery as part of the processing. The PRSD provides reactants to the fuel cells during a flight to produce electricity.<\/p>\n<p>  The shuttle is targeted for launch Sept. 16 on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32243","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\/32243","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32286,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32243\/revisions\/32286"}],"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=32243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}