{"id":81084,"date":"2011-02-26T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/1c560f45a37bbb594ce0686c3913ae86"},"modified":"2011-02-26T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:18:39","slug":"discovery-begins-rendezvous-pitch-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=81084","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Begins Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:15 p.m. EST, space shuttle Discovery began the nine-minute Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or &#8220;backflip.&#8221; With Commander Steve Lindsey at the helm, Discovery is rotating 360 degrees backward to enable space station astronauts to take high resolution pictures of the shuttle&#8217;s heat shield. Lindsey then will fly the shuttle through a quarter circle to a position about 310 feet directly in front of the station, allowing the station to catch up with it for docking at 2:16 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On mission STS-114, Discovery was the first shuttle to perform this &#8220;backflip&#8221; maneuver, one of the safety procedures instituted following the Columbia accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:15 p.m. EST, space shuttle Discovery began the nine-minute Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or &#8220;backflip.&#8221; With Commander Steve Lindsey at the helm, Discovery is rotating 360 degrees backward to enable space station astronauts to take high resolution pictures of the shuttle&#8217;s heat shield. Lindsey then will fly the shuttle through a quarter circle to a position about 310 feet directly in front of the station, allowing the station to catch up with it for docking at 2:16 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On mission STS-114, Discovery was the first shuttle to perform this &#8220;backflip&#8221; maneuver, one of the safety procedures instituted following the Columbia accident.<\/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-81084","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\/81084","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=81084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81084\/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=81084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}