At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility-3, technicians have completed the removal of the three main engines and now will replace the suspect turbopump in engine 1 and then reinstall the engines. The turbopump developed an issue earlier this week during a torque check.<\/p>\n
Main landing gear brake installation is scheduled for today. During the weekend, teams will complete the thermal protection system payload bay door plug installation and carrier panel installations. <\/p>\n
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts will spend the day meeting with their ascent and entry flight directors and conducting altitude chamber training.<\/p>\n
Discovery is to launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. The official targeted launch date remains Sept. 16, but a change request has been submitted to move the flight to Oct. 29, with STS-134 moving to February 2011. The request is under consideration and an announcement is expected at the first of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility-3, technicians have completed the removal of the three main engines and now will replace the suspect turbopump in engine 1 and then reinstall the engines. The turbopump developed an issue earlier this week during a torque check.<\/p>\n
Main landing gear brake installation is scheduled for today. During the weekend, teams will complete the thermal protection system payload bay door plug installation and carrier panel installations. <\/p>\n
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts will spend the day meeting with their ascent and entry flight directors and conducting altitude chamber training.<\/p>\n
Discovery is to launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. The official targeted launch date remains Sept. 16, but a change request has been submitted to move the flight to Oct. 29, with STS-134 moving to February 2011. The request is under consideration and an announcement is expected at the first of July.<\/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-35396","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\/35396","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=35396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35396\/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=35396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}