{"id":44040,"date":"2010-08-06T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/3a43ad202c423d3d07a35f8d1b10fd41"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:19:49","slug":"technicians-to-focus-on-discoverys-heat-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=44040","title":{"rendered":"Technicians to Focus on Discovery&#8217;s Heat Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, technicians will continue processing work on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s tiled heat shield as it undergoes launch preparations in Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Recent leak checks on the crew module were completed successfully with no issues arising, and work on the orbiter&#8217;s S-band antenna and front nose gear were finished. The STS-133 astronauts are spending Friday simulating their roles during the rendezvous phase of the mission, when Discovery will be steered to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, technicians will continue processing work on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s tiled heat shield as it undergoes launch preparations in Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Recent leak checks on the crew module were completed successfully with no issues arising, and work on the orbiter&#8217;s S-band antenna and front nose gear were finished. The STS-133 astronauts are spending Friday simulating their roles during the rendezvous phase of the mission, when Discovery will be steered 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-44040","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\/44040","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=44040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44040\/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=44040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}