{"id":47576,"date":"2010-08-24T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/c26dcd21b28ef565c637e5f3fc7bd7a7"},"modified":"2010-08-24T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:04:27","slug":"leak-checks-today-for-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=47576","title":{"rendered":"Leak Checks Today for Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working inside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are beginning a three-day leak test of space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s entry closed loop gaseous nitrogen life support system. Tonight, workers will perform a similar test of the spacecraft&#8217;s external tank umbilical. The shuttle&#8217;s glass cockpit displays also are undergoing testing. Discovery is slated to be carried to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Sept. 8. Launch is targeted for Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 mission astronauts are in the fixed-base simulator at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the training base for NASA&#8217;s astronauts. The crew is rehearsing the installation of ELC-4, a procedure they will perform during the mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working inside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are beginning a three-day leak test of space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s entry closed loop gaseous nitrogen life support system. Tonight, workers will perform a similar test of the spacecraft&#8217;s external tank umbilical. The shuttle&#8217;s glass cockpit displays also are undergoing testing. Discovery is slated to be carried to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Sept. 8. Launch is targeted for Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 mission astronauts are in the fixed-base simulator at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the training base for NASA&#8217;s astronauts. The crew is rehearsing the installation of ELC-4, a procedure they will perform during the mission 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-47576","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\/47576","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=47576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47576\/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=47576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}