{"id":59339,"date":"2010-10-25T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/d1fe069539e57fe470f447f6d30d3892"},"modified":"2010-10-25T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:09:59","slug":"propellant-tanks-refilled-as-discoverys-review-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=59339","title":{"rendered":"Propellant Tanks Refilled as Discovery&#8217;s Review Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, finished refilling shuttle Discovery&#8217;s four orbital maneuvering and reaction control systems tanks with propellants. The tanks had to be refilled after crews replaced two seals where there previously was a small hypergolic fuel leak at Discovery&#8217;s right-hand crossfeed line flange. Technicians now are preparing the spacecraft for its upcoming launch.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA managers are at Kennedy today for the STS-133 Flight Readiness Review, where they will discuss the readiness of the shuttle, crews, payload and International Space Station and set the official launch date. A news conference will be held live on NASA TV at the conclusion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>  The STS-133 astronauts will enter quarantine at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston this afternoon in preparation for the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, finished refilling shuttle Discovery&#8217;s four orbital maneuvering and reaction control systems tanks with propellants. The tanks had to be refilled after crews replaced two seals where there previously was a small hypergolic fuel leak at Discovery&#8217;s right-hand crossfeed line flange. Technicians now are preparing the spacecraft for its upcoming launch.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA managers are at Kennedy today for the STS-133 Flight Readiness Review, where they will discuss the readiness of the shuttle, crews, payload and International Space Station and set the official launch date. A news conference will be held live on NASA TV at the conclusion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>  The STS-133 astronauts will enter quarantine at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston this afternoon in preparation for the mission.<\/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-59339","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\/59339","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=59339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59339\/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=59339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}