NASA managers will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. CST (Noon Eastern time) today at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the next space shuttle mission, STS-133, and the progress of repairs since Discovery’s original launch delay Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
The news conference follows Thursday’s Space Shuttle Program Requirements Control Board meeting. Program officials reviewed repairs and engineering evaluations associated with cracks on two 21-foot-long, U-shaped aluminum brackets called stringers on the shuttle’s external tank. <\/p>\n
The briefing participants are Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations; John Shannon, Space Shuttle Program manager and Mike Suffredini, International Space Station Program manager.<\/p>\n
The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NASA managers will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. CST (Noon Eastern time) today at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the next space shuttle mission, STS-133, and the progress of repairs since Discovery’s original launch delay Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
The news conference follows Thursday’s Space Shuttle Program Requirements Control Board meeting. Program officials reviewed repairs and engineering evaluations associated with cracks on two 21-foot-long, U-shaped aluminum brackets called stringers on the shuttle’s external tank. <\/p>\n
The briefing participants are Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations; John Shannon, Space Shuttle Program manager and Mike Suffredini, International Space Station Program manager.<\/p>\n
The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv<\/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-65983","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\/65983","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=65983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65983\/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=65983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}