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**Over 2100mb of STS-116 onwards related presentions and mission documentation <\/em>available on L2<\/em> ** Around 15 documents and images helped collate this article \u2013 all downloadable on L2.<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-116 \u2013 FOR EACH FLIGHT DAY**<\/em><\/p>\n The note \u2013 recieved live on this site\u2019s L2 live NASA memo update pages \u2013 read: \u2018(Names removed) reported that the recommendation going forward to the MMT today is to NOT do the FD5 focused inspection.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n The note was sent at 9am Central Time. The MMT will meet at 1pm Central Time.<\/p>\n The news will also see the standing down of Atlantis from LON (Launch On Need) requirements, allowing her processing flow to concentrate on STS-117, set to launch next Spring.<\/font><\/p>\n On the first of three EVAs, Sweden\u2019s Christer Fuglesang and NASA\u2019s Robert Curbeam will install the P5 truss segment. They spent the night in the Quest airlock \u2013 which they will depart from \u2013 in order to breathe pure oxygen, and avoid a condition called the bends.<\/p>\n While any concerns have been allayed, it is likely the TPS will get a quick scan at the end of Flight Day 4, for the purpose of collecting data for future flights.<\/p>\n Following the EVA, a new article will follow.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-116 \u2013 FOR EACH FLIGHT DAY**<\/font><\/em> **INFINITY: 10 minute STS-115 MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/font> NASA managers are taking a recommendation to today\u2019s MMT (Management Mission Team) that no Focused Inspections will be required on Flight Day 5 for Shuttle orbiter Discovery \u2013 pointing to the clearance of all areas of interest on her Thermal Protection System (TPS). Discovery\u2019s crew awoke to ABBA on Flight Day 4 of STS-116 \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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