{"id":651,"date":"2006-09-19T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2006-09-19T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T18:56:06","slug":"ufo-weather-postpone-shuttle-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/ufo-weather-postpone-shuttle-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO, Weather Postpone Shuttle Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space junk floating above Earth? In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/bolt12.html\">losing a bolt<\/a> on this mission (STS115), the shuttle seems to have shaken off an unknown object after testing the reaction control system:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\">NASA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">Object Investigation, Weather Force Managers to Wave Off Wednesday Landing <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0609\/object.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>The Mission Control Center in Houston informed the STS-115 crew about 10:45 a.m. EDT that Wednesday&#8217;s landing attempts have been waved off due to an unfavorable weather forecast, coupled with the possibility of additional inspections of Space Shuttle Atlantis. <\/p>\n<p>An object was observed by flight controllers using a TV camera on the shuttle in close proximity to the spacecraft. It was observed following standard tests of Atlantis&#8217; reaction control system about 2:45 a.m. today. Flight controllers continue to analyze the situation and are concerned the item may be something that came off of Atlantis. <\/p>\n<p><em>Image: unknown object in center of highlighted circle (courtesy NASA)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space junk floating above Earth? In addition to losing a bolt on this mission (STS115), the shuttle seems to have shaken off an unknown object after&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}