{"id":65717,"date":"2010-12-02T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a4f4096ab8b9cbf2cecbbb17c243dd17"},"modified":"2010-12-02T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T13:53:10","slug":"review-board-to-meet-today-about-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=65717","title":{"rendered":"Review Board to Meet Today About Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians will install reference dots on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ground umbilical carrier plate, or GUCP, to monitor for movement during tanking. 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 will meet today to assess 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. If managers clear Discovery for launch on Dec. 17, the preferred time is about 8:51 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts Alvin Drew and Tim Kopra are rehearsing their second spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians will install reference dots on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ground umbilical carrier plate, or GUCP, to monitor for movement during tanking. 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 will meet today to assess 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. If managers clear Discovery for launch on Dec. 17, the preferred time is about 8:51 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts Alvin Drew and Tim Kopra are rehearsing their second spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/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-65717","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\/65717","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=65717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65717\/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=65717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}