{"id":64311,"date":"2010-11-22T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a5ea31492c77b1dcb60d73c825b4f2bd"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:34:28","slug":"external-tank-scans-continue-as-foam-replacement-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=64311","title":{"rendered":"External Tank Scans Continue as Foam Replacement Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams will continue performing scans of stringers accessible from within the environmental enclosure on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank. Technicians completed applying replacement foam on the tank over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Shuttle Program will review the analysis and repairs that are required to safely launch shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission at a special Program Requirements Control Board session Wednesday. Pending a successful review of the flight rationale at that meeting, a Launch Status Briefing would be held with senior NASA management on Monday, Nov. 29. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s \u201cCall-to-Stations\u201d to begin the launch countdown will be no earlier than Nov. 30, supporting a first launch attempt no earlier than Dec. 3 at about 2:52 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams will continue performing scans of stringers accessible from within the environmental enclosure on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank. Technicians completed applying replacement foam on the tank over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Shuttle Program will review the analysis and repairs that are required to safely launch shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission at a special Program Requirements Control Board session Wednesday. Pending a successful review of the flight rationale at that meeting, a Launch Status Briefing would be held with senior NASA management on Monday, Nov. 29. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s \u201cCall-to-Stations\u201d to begin the launch countdown will be no earlier than Nov. 30, supporting a first launch attempt no earlier than Dec. 3 at about 2:52 a.m. EST.<\/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-64311","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\/64311","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=64311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64311\/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=64311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}