{"id":73902,"date":"2011-01-19T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/1bfba3eb1869608be790f5d9aeba2262"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:00:44","slug":"external-tank-strenghtening-modifications-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=73902","title":{"rendered":"External Tank Strenghtening Modifications Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue work to make strengthening modifications on Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers.  <\/p>\n<p>Discovery and its six astronauts are targeted to launch Feb. 24. <\/p>\n<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>STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey and Pilot Eric Boe will fly the Shuttle Training Aircraft in training runs at the White Sands Space Harbor, N.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue work to make strengthening modifications on Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers.  <\/p>\n<p>Discovery and its six astronauts are targeted to launch Feb. 24. <\/p>\n<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>STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey and Pilot Eric Boe will fly the Shuttle Training Aircraft in training runs at the White Sands Space Harbor, N.M.<\/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-73902","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\/73902","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=73902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73902\/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=73902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}