{"id":69939,"date":"2010-12-22T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/749e5229d6705e7ce87ed3e71073b487"},"modified":"2010-12-22T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:40:42","slug":"discovery-rollback-completed-tank-modification-decision-expected-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=69939","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Rollback Completed, Tank Modification Decision Expected Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery has reached the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), completing the 3.4 mile trek from Launch Pad 39A. The move, known as a rollback, began Tuesday at 10:48 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>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>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery has reached the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), completing the 3.4 mile trek from Launch Pad 39A. The move, known as a rollback, began Tuesday at 10:48 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>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-69939","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\/69939","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=69939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939\/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=69939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}