{"id":74879,"date":"2011-01-24T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/51dd010cf60e54f41f9dc865c8e20abb"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:47:21","slug":"stringer-modifications-on-external-tank-to-wrap-up-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=74879","title":{"rendered":"Stringer Modifications on External Tank to Wrap Up This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are expected to wrap up all modification work on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers this week. Teams worked through the weekend, finishing all the radius block attachments to the stringers. The initial insulation foam reapplication was completed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Work for the rest of the week will involve additional foam spraying and trimming operations. This will support Discovery&#8217;s scheduled rollout back to Launch Pad 39A on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts, including the newly added Steve Bowen, will run through an ascent proficiency session in the motion base simulator today and will review procedures for the mission&#8217;s first spacewalk and robotics work in the virtual reality lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians are expected to wrap up all modification work on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank stringers this week. Teams worked through the weekend, finishing all the radius block attachments to the stringers. The initial insulation foam reapplication was completed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Work for the rest of the week will involve additional foam spraying and trimming operations. This will support Discovery&#8217;s scheduled rollout back to Launch Pad 39A on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-133 astronauts, including the newly added Steve Bowen, will run through an ascent proficiency session in the motion base simulator today and will review procedures for the mission&#8217;s first spacewalk and robotics work in the virtual reality lab.<\/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-74879","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\/74879","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=74879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74879\/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=74879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}