{"id":83254,"date":"2011-03-08T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/bf0194af82252e8187fad4b5d8ef73be"},"modified":"2011-03-08T06:49:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:49:50","slug":"discovery-flight-control-system-checks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=83254","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Flight Control System Checks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s astronauts activated one of the ship&#8217;s three auxiliary power units and performed a checkout of the orbiter&#8217;s flight control surfaces. This standard day-before-entry test provides assurance to the crew and Mission Control that Discovery&#8217;s elevons and speed brake will provide control once the shuttle enters the atmosphere for Wednesday&#8217;s 11:57 a.m. EST landing.<\/p>\n<p>  At about 6:40 a.m., the crew will &#8220;hotfire&#8221; Discovery&#8217;s Reaction Control System thruster jets to verify their ability to steer the shuttle through its entry profile before it encounters the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s astronauts activated one of the ship&#8217;s three auxiliary power units and performed a checkout of the orbiter&#8217;s flight control surfaces. This standard day-before-entry test provides assurance to the crew and Mission Control that Discovery&#8217;s elevons and speed brake will provide control once the shuttle enters the atmosphere for Wednesday&#8217;s 11:57 a.m. EST landing.<\/p>\n<p>  At about 6:40 a.m., the crew will &#8220;hotfire&#8221; Discovery&#8217;s Reaction Control System thruster jets to verify their ability to steer the shuttle through its entry profile before it encounters the atmosphere.<\/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-83254","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\/83254","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=83254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83254\/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=83254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}