{"id":84912,"date":"2011-03-18T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a1328d752a34c8f43c56b30528f84c97"},"modified":"2011-03-18T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:53:18","slug":"endeavours-apus-fueled-for-flight-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=84912","title":{"rendered":"Endeavour&#8217;s APUs Fueled for Flight this Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A will complete preparations to fuel space shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s auxiliary power units (APU). APUs are hydrazine-fueled, turbine-driven power units that generate mechanical shaft power to drive hydraulic pumps that produce pressure for the orbiter&#8217;s hydraulic system. Fueling is schedule to occur over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour&#8217;s payload, which includes the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) a high-pressure gas tank, spare parts for Dextre and other equipment, is set to begin its move to the launch pad Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A will complete preparations to fuel space shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s auxiliary power units (APU). APUs are hydrazine-fueled, turbine-driven power units that generate mechanical shaft power to drive hydraulic pumps that produce pressure for the orbiter&#8217;s hydraulic system. Fueling is schedule to occur over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour&#8217;s payload, which includes the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) a high-pressure gas tank, spare parts for Dextre and other equipment, is set to begin its move to the launch pad Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84912","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\/84912","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84912\/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=84912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}