{"id":43249,"date":"2010-08-02T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/0446c90c028fb5b8dbbdb7c8ce0c3cd3"},"modified":"2010-08-02T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:25:35","slug":"oms-pod-tests-today-as-crew-rehearses-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=43249","title":{"rendered":"OMS Pod Tests Today as Crew Rehearses Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery is undergoing leak checks on the left orbital maneuvering system pod at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center today as the spacecraft is readied for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Workers also will closeout the shuttle&#8217;s airlock aft hatch and conclude a test on the auxiliary power unit gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>  The astronauts are conducting a launch simulation today at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will work inside the motion-based simulator which mimics the movements and behavior of the shuttle. The mission control and launch control teams also take part in launch simulations so the whole team gets in-depth practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery is undergoing leak checks on the left orbital maneuvering system pod at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center today as the spacecraft is readied for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Workers also will closeout the shuttle&#8217;s airlock aft hatch and conclude a test on the auxiliary power unit gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>  The astronauts are conducting a launch simulation today at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will work inside the motion-based simulator which mimics the movements and behavior of the shuttle. The mission control and launch control teams also take part in launch simulations so the whole team gets in-depth practice.<\/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-43249","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\/43249","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=43249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43249\/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=43249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}