{"id":6108,"date":"2009-11-18T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/2cfca8bfedd98ea58f30a23aa5aafdbd"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:32:21","slug":"logistics-carrier-installed-on-station-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=6108","title":{"rendered":"Logistics Carrier Installed on Station Backbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:27 p.m. EST,  shuttle Atlantis and space station astronauts attached the Express Logistics Carrier -1 (ELC) to the Earth-facing side of the station&#8217;s left truss, or backbone. This is the first of two ELCs that will be installed on the station&#8217;s exterior during STS-129, providing easily-accessible spares to increase the longevity of the station.<\/p>\n<p>  The spare hardware stored on ELC-1 includes an Ammonia Tank Assembly, a Battery Charger Discharge Unit, a Control Moment Gyroscope, a station robotic arm Latching End Effector Unit, a Nitrogen Tank Assembly, a Plasma Contactor Unit, a Pump Module Assembly and a Passive Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 4:27 p.m. EST,  shuttle Atlantis and space station astronauts attached the Express Logistics Carrier -1 (ELC) to the Earth-facing side of the station&#8217;s left truss, or backbone. This is the first of two ELCs that will be installed on the station&#8217;s exterior during STS-129, providing easily-accessible spares to increase the longevity of the station.<\/p>\n<p>  The spare hardware stored on ELC-1 includes an Ammonia Tank Assembly, a Battery Charger Discharge Unit, a Control Moment Gyroscope, a station robotic arm Latching End Effector Unit, a Nitrogen Tank Assembly, a Plasma Contactor Unit, a Pump Module Assembly and a Passive Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6108","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\/6108","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/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=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}