{"id":72438,"date":"2011-01-11T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/68e53cd64e68931b9d74fd614dca56c5"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:44:43","slug":"tank-foam-removed-as-modifications-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=72438","title":{"rendered":"Tank Foam Removed as Modifications Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians removed the foam on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external tank so modifications can be made to add support to 95 support beams called stringers on the tank&#8217;s intertank region. The modification work is under way on Discovery as it stands in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Shuttle program managers will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. EST this afternoon to update the progress of the repairs and modifications. The press conference will air on NASA TV and on the NASA Web site.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts who will fly Discovery on the STS-133 mission will practice contingency abort scenarios in the motion-base simulator at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the training base for shuttle crews and home of the Mission Control Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians removed the foam on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external tank so modifications can be made to add support to 95 support beams called stringers on the tank&#8217;s intertank region. The modification work is under way on Discovery as it stands in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Shuttle program managers will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. EST this afternoon to update the progress of the repairs and modifications. The press conference will air on NASA TV and on the NASA Web site.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts who will fly Discovery on the STS-133 mission will practice contingency abort scenarios in the motion-base simulator at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the training base for shuttle crews and home of the Mission Control Center.<\/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-72438","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\/72438","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=72438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72438\/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=72438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}