{"id":69880,"date":"2010-12-22T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/6731ba25d2f1f90af4db7702290d102b"},"modified":"2010-12-22T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T04:03:01","slug":"discovery-rollback-begins-tank-modification-decision-expected-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=69880","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Rollback Begins, Tank Modification Decision Expected Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u202a<br \/>Teams at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began moving space shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39A back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Tuesday at 10:48 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery is expected to be securely back inside the VAB by about 5 a.m. Wednesday.\u202c<\/p>\n<p>\u202aOnce there, technicians will take x-ray scans beneath the foam insulation of all 108 support beams, called stringers, on Discovery\u2019s external fuel tank. They\u2019ll also remove sensors on the external tank from last Friday\u2019s tanking test and reapply foam to those areas.\u202c<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday afternoon, Space Shuttle Program managers also decided to protect the option of performing known and practiced modifications on some of the stringers, if additional testing and analysis indicates that\u2019s necessary. Managers are expected to decide on Dec. 30 whether modifications are needed.\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u202a<br \/>Teams at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began moving space shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39A back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Tuesday at 10:48 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery is expected to be securely back inside the VAB by about 5 a.m. Wednesday.\u202c<\/p>\n<p>\u202aOnce there, technicians will take x-ray scans beneath the foam insulation of all 108 support beams, called stringers, on Discovery\u2019s external fuel tank. They\u2019ll also remove sensors on the external tank from last Friday\u2019s tanking test and reapply foam to those areas.\u202c<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday afternoon, Space Shuttle Program managers also decided to protect the option of performing known and practiced modifications on some of the stringers, if additional testing and analysis indicates that\u2019s necessary. Managers are expected to decide on Dec. 30 whether modifications are needed.\u202c<\/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-69880","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\/69880","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=69880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69880\/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=69880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}