{"id":73282,"date":"2011-01-15T22:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T02:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/d240e7733c5354bec1d88afab3ded4dc"},"modified":"2011-01-15T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T02:48:56","slug":"discovery-mission-specialist-injured-but-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=73282","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Mission Specialist Injured, But OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery&#8217;s STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. That possibility still is being evaluated. <\/p>\n<p>Further details of his injury are not being released at this time due to concerns for his medical privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working through the weekend on making strengthening modifications on Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers.  <br \/>Discovery and its six astronauts are targeted to launch Feb. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery&#8217;s STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. That possibility still is being evaluated. <\/p>\n<p>Further details of his injury are not being released at this time due to concerns for his medical privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working through the weekend on making strengthening modifications on Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers.  <br \/>Discovery and its six astronauts are targeted to launch Feb. 24.<\/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-73282","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\/73282","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=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73295,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions\/73295"}],"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=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}