{"id":2151,"date":"2011-05-02T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:43:00","slug":"and_in_other_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/02\/and_in_other_news\/","title":{"rendered":"And in Other News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA says it will be at least May 10 before they make another attempt to launch <i>Endeavour<\/i>. The engineers have decided to replace something called a Load Control Assembly (LCA), which I understand is similar to&nbsp; a circuit-breaker box. The faulty LCA is believed to have been causing the problem with the heaters on the Auxiliary Power Unit, which led to the scrubbing of last week&#8217;s launch attempt, and it will take some time to swap it out and retest everything it connects to. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny&#8230; even knowing that this will be <i>Endeavour<\/i>&#8216;s last flight, I&#8217;m still as impatient with these delays as I was when I was a kid. Once those birds get out to the launch pad, I <i>want <\/i>to see them fly&#8230; irrational, isn&#8217;t it? Considering that a successful launch only means we&#8217;re that much closer to the end of the shuttles forever. But I&#8217;ve never claimed to be rational when it comes to things like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA says it will be at least May 10 before they make another attempt to launch Endeavour. The engineers have decided to replace something called a Load Control Assembly (LCA), which I understand is similar to&nbsp; a circuit-breaker box. The faulty LCA is believed to have been causing the problem with the heaters on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}