On Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians continue prelaunch propellant servicing on space shuttle Endeavour.<\/p>\n
The payload for the STS-130 mission, including the Italian-built Tranquility node and the cupola, which is attached to one end of the node, is scheduled to be transported to the pad Friday.<\/p>\n
Engineers have made significant progress toward a solution to a problem with one of the four high-pressure ammonia jumper hoses that failed during a prelaunch test Jan 7.\u202a The four hoses will be used to connect Tranquility to the International Space Station’s cooling system after installation by Endeavour’s crew members.<\/p>\n
NASA managers and Boeing, the station’s prime contractor, are working simultaneously on three options, one of which may support a target launch of Endeavour on Feb. 7. <\/p>\n
The options include modifying the hose design that failed during testing, creating a second set from ground spares for hoses currently on the station, executing a minimal activation of Tranquility with no active cooling that would require the hoses be flown on a later flight, or delayed full activation. NASA managers will review these options and make decisions later this week.\u202a<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-130 astronauts practice spacewalking techniques in the pool at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians continue prelaunch propellant servicing on space shuttle Endeavour.<\/p>\n
The payload for the STS-130 mission, including the Italian-built Tranquility node and the cupola, which is attached to one end of the node, is scheduled to be transported to the pad Friday.<\/p>\n
Engineers have made significant progress toward a solution to a problem with one of the four high-pressure ammonia jumper hoses that failed during a prelaunch test Jan 7.\u202a The four hoses will be used to connect Tranquility to the International Space Station’s cooling system after installation by Endeavour’s crew members.<\/p>\n
NASA managers and Boeing, the station’s prime contractor, are working simultaneously on three options, one of which may support a target launch of Endeavour on Feb. 7. <\/p>\n
The options include modifying the hose design that failed during testing, creating a second set from ground spares for hoses currently on the station, executing a minimal activation of Tranquility with no active cooling that would require the hoses be flown on a later flight, or delayed full activation. NASA managers will review these options and make decisions later this week.\u202a<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-130 astronauts practice spacewalking techniques in the pool at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8370","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\/8370","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/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=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}