Shuttle Atlantis once again is being lifted into position to be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building.<\/p>\n
About 9:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, a problem with the overhead crane forced technicians to stop the lifting operation. The issue wouldn’t allow a "fine" adjustment of the 325-ton crane in the north direction. That left Atlantis suspended on its sling over the VAB transfer aisle overnight and this morning. Engineers discovered a wiring problem and fixed it late this morning. Lifting operations resumed about 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
During the rest of the day and evening, Atlantis will be moved into the VAB’s high bay 1 and attached to its external tank and SRBs.<\/p>\n
Shuttle managers will assess schedules and workflow as operations continue, but they’re still looking to support Atlantis’ rollout to Launch Pad 39A on Oct. 13 for its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shuttle Atlantis once again is being lifted into position to be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building.<\/p>\n
About 9:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, a problem with the overhead crane forced technicians to stop the lifting operation. The issue wouldn’t allow a "fine" adjustment of the 325-ton crane in the north direction. That left Atlantis suspended on its sling over the VAB transfer aisle overnight and this morning. Engineers discovered a wiring problem and fixed it late this morning. Lifting operations resumed about 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
During the rest of the day and evening, Atlantis will be moved into the VAB’s high bay 1 and attached to its external tank and SRBs.<\/p>\n
Shuttle managers will assess schedules and workflow as operations continue, but they’re still looking to support Atlantis’ rollout to Launch Pad 39A on Oct. 13 for its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","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\/3433","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3439"}],"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=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}