{"id":64979,"date":"2010-11-26T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/2069d16d9dd2ace8ff2c22be16f95a59"},"modified":"2010-11-26T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:47:44","slug":"discovery-powered-down-analysis-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=64979","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Powered Down, Analysis Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is powered down for the weekend while analysis continue. Discovery&#8217;s launch is currently targeted for no earlier than Dec. 17, after shuttle managers determined more tests and analysis are needed. <\/p>\n<p> The Program Requirements Control Board reviewed on Wednesday repairs and engineering evaluations associated with cracks on two 21-foot-long, U-shaped aluminum brackets, called stringers, on the shuttle&#8217;s external tank. Managers decided the analysis and tests required to launch Discovery safely are not complete. The work will continue through next week.<\/p>\n<p> The next status review by the PRCB will be Thursday, Dec. 2. If managers clear Discovery for launch on Dec. 17, the preferred time is about 8:51 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is powered down for the weekend while analysis continue. Discovery&#8217;s launch is currently targeted for no earlier than Dec. 17, after shuttle managers determined more tests and analysis are needed. <\/p>\n<p> The Program Requirements Control Board reviewed on Wednesday repairs and engineering evaluations associated with cracks on two 21-foot-long, U-shaped aluminum brackets, called stringers, on the shuttle&#8217;s external tank. Managers decided the analysis and tests required to launch Discovery safely are not complete. The work will continue through next week.<\/p>\n<p> The next status review by the PRCB will be Thursday, Dec. 2. If managers clear Discovery for launch on Dec. 17, the preferred time is about 8:51 p.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-64979","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\/64979","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=64979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64979\/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=64979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}