{"id":43808,"date":"2010-08-05T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/158b713f341115e4c8b63f87b28d0294"},"modified":"2010-08-05T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T12:43:31","slug":"communications-antenna-work-today-for-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=43808","title":{"rendered":"Communications Antenna Work Today for Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leak checks are wrapping up today on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s crew module as work continues to prepare the spacecraft for its targeted launch on Nov. 1. Technicians also are working on the shuttle&#8217;s S-band communications antenna today.<\/p>\n<p>  Workers finished electrical checks of the shuttle&#8217;s robotic arm and orbiter boom sensor system yesterday. The boom is used to inspect the shuttle&#8217;s heat shield once in space. They also finished inspections of the shuttle&#8217;s radiator retract hoses. <\/p>\n<p>  The STS-133 crew is rehearsing ascent techniques today in the crew trainer and will review other ascent procedures as they continue training at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leak checks are wrapping up today on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s crew module as work continues to prepare the spacecraft for its targeted launch on Nov. 1. Technicians also are working on the shuttle&#8217;s S-band communications antenna today.<\/p>\n<p>  Workers finished electrical checks of the shuttle&#8217;s robotic arm and orbiter boom sensor system yesterday. The boom is used to inspect the shuttle&#8217;s heat shield once in space. They also finished inspections of the shuttle&#8217;s radiator retract hoses. <\/p>\n<p>  The STS-133 crew is rehearsing ascent techniques today in the crew trainer and will review other ascent procedures as they continue training at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/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-43808","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\/43808","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=43808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43808\/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=43808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}