{"id":81634,"date":"2011-02-28T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/365cd5ad53a790c0e9f28ed8fad7c8e2"},"modified":"2011-02-28T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:09:25","slug":"spacewalkers-attach-ammonia-pump-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=81634","title":{"rendered":"Spacewalkers Attach Ammonia Pump Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assisted by space station robotic arm drivers Scott Kelly and Mike Barratt, spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew attached  an 800-pound ammonia pump module to External Stowage Platform 2 on the outside of the Quest airlock. The failed pump module will remain there until it can be brought back to Earth for engineering analysis at a future date. The spacewalkers also installed a tool to safely vent the remaining ammonia from the pump module into space. <\/p>\n<p>The pump module failed in July 2010 and was removed from its original truss location during an Aug. 11, 2010, spacewalk by Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson. It had been temporarily stored on the mobile base system payload orbital replacement unit accommodation (POA) for about  6.5 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assisted by space station robotic arm drivers Scott Kelly and Mike Barratt, spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew attached  an 800-pound ammonia pump module to External Stowage Platform 2 on the outside of the Quest airlock. The failed pump module will remain there until it can be brought back to Earth for engineering analysis at a future date. The spacewalkers also installed a tool to safely vent the remaining ammonia from the pump module into space. <\/p>\n<p>The pump module failed in July 2010 and was removed from its original truss location during an Aug. 11, 2010, spacewalk by Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson. It had been temporarily stored on the mobile base system payload orbital replacement unit accommodation (POA) for about  6.5 months.<\/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-81634","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\/81634","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=81634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81634\/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=81634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}