{"id":131488,"date":"2021-11-30T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-postpones-iss-spacewalk-because-of-debris"},"modified":"2021-11-30T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:22:42","slug":"nasa-postpones-iss-spacewalk-because-of-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-postpones-iss-spacewalk-because-of-debris","title":{"rendered":"NASA postpones ISS spacewalk because of debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-postpones-iss-spacewalk-because-of-debris.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 NASA postponed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station by two astronauts just hours before it was scheduled to start after getting a warning that debris would pass close to the station.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement issued early Nov. 30, NASA said a \u201cdebris notification\u201d it received on the evening of Nov. 29 led the agency to postpone the spacewalk by astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, which had been scheduled to start at about 7:10 a.m. Eastern. The two had planned to replace an S-band antenna on the station\u2019s truss that recently lost the ability to transmit data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the lack of opportunity to properly assess the risk it could pose to the astronauts, teams have decided to delay the spacewalk until more information is available,\u201d NASA said in the statement. The agency did not identify the debris in question or the times and distances of closest approach to the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 NASA postponed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station by two astronauts just hours before it was scheduled to start after getting a warning that debris would pass close to the station. In a brief statement issued early Nov. 30, NASA said a \u201cdebris notification\u201d it received on the evening of Nov. 29 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}