{"id":786,"date":"2012-07-31T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=786"},"modified":"2012-07-31T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:55:02","slug":"testing-tethers-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/testing-tethers-space-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Tethers in Space History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago today — July 31, 1992 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> launched from the Kennedy Space Center on an international science mission.<\/p>\n

\"\"
\n(Tethered Satellite System. The tether itself is partly in shadow in this NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nSTS-46<\/a> included U.S. astronauts Loren J. Shriver, Andrew M. Allen, Marsha S. Ivins, Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, and Italian astronaut Franco Malerba. <\/p>\n

Though technical problems delayed operations, the crew successfully deployed the European Space Agency’s European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA)<\/a>, an experiment-filled platform that stayed in orbit almost a year before being retrieved by the shuttle Endeavour<\/em>. The Tethered Satellite System (TSS)<\/a>, a joint NASA\/Italian Space Agency venture to test the behavior of tethers in space, did not deploy as planned; however, as a test, it proved that extending tethers in space is a more difficult and delicate task than anticipated.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago today — July 31, 1992 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on an international science mission. (Tethered Satellite System. The tether itself is partly in shadow in this NASA image.) STS-46 included U.S. astronauts Loren J. Shriver, Andrew M. Allen, Marsha S. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,11,12],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}