Space shuttle Endeavour is ready to leave its hangar and be transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rollover is a major milestone to get a shuttle ready for its next mission. <\/p>\n
Managers are meeting this morning to confirm everything is on track for Endeavour’s move from Orbiter Processing Facility-2 to the VAB starting at 1 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n
NASA TV will air live video coverage of rollover, which also is available online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. <\/p>\n
The team will spend the rest of the afternoon and this weekend attaching Endeavour to its two solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank on the mobile launcher platform. <\/p>\n
Training for the STS-130 crew members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston focuses on practicing robotics techniques in the fixed-based simulator today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space shuttle Endeavour is ready to leave its hangar and be transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rollover is a major milestone to get a shuttle ready for its next mission. <\/p>\n
Managers are meeting this morning to confirm everything is on track for Endeavour’s move from Orbiter Processing Facility-2 to the VAB starting at 1 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n
NASA TV will air live video coverage of rollover, which also is available online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. <\/p>\n
The team will spend the rest of the afternoon and this weekend attaching Endeavour to its two solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank on the mobile launcher platform. <\/p>\n
Training for the STS-130 crew members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston focuses on practicing robotics techniques in the fixed-based simulator today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","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\/6818","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/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=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}