{"id":50876,"date":"2010-09-08T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/9dc0d8cb05f362858862f81b137a4598"},"modified":"2010-09-08T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T15:49:16","slug":"kennedy-space-center-closed-today-discoverys-rollover-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=50876","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Space Center Closed Today, Discovery&#8217;s Rollover Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center is closed today due to a major water main leak. Only essential personnel (security, fire\/rescue, operations) are at the center. <\/p>\n<p> Crews are working on a break in a 24-inch pipe located at the LC-39 Complex turn basin across from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). They\u2019re also assessing Kennedy\u2019s water system to identify any other potential problems. Currently, there is no potable water at the center.<\/p>\n<p> Shuttle Discovery\u2019s move, known as rollover, from its hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to the VAB, which had been scheduled for 6:30 a.m. EDT this morning, is postponed until at least tomorrow morning (Sept. 9). Today\u2019s delay is not expected to affect Discovery\u2019s targeted Nov. 1 launch on its STS-133 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center is closed today due to a major water main leak. Only essential personnel (security, fire\/rescue, operations) are at the center. <\/p>\n<p> Crews are working on a break in a 24-inch pipe located at the LC-39 Complex turn basin across from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). They\u2019re also assessing Kennedy\u2019s water system to identify any other potential problems. Currently, there is no potable water at the center.<\/p>\n<p> Shuttle Discovery\u2019s move, known as rollover, from its hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to the VAB, which had been scheduled for 6:30 a.m. EDT this morning, is postponed until at least tomorrow morning (Sept. 9). Today\u2019s delay is not expected to affect Discovery\u2019s targeted Nov. 1 launch on its STS-133 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-50876","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\/50876","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=50876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50876\/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=50876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}