{"id":10481,"date":"2010-02-08T01:24:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/3c663c74c0b6700e46906691fcbf707c"},"modified":"2010-02-08T01:24:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:24:48","slug":"next-stop-launch-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=10481","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop, Launch Pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The STS-130 astronauts are striding out of the Operations and Checkout Building to the cheers and applause from the crowd of well-wishers as they head for NASA&#8217;s silver Astrovan, the vehicle that will take them to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>While the crew heads to the pad, a group of technicians known as the &#8220;Closeout Crew&#8221; is already inside Endeavour&#8217;s crew compartment getting the vehicle ready for their arrival. They will conduct the final check of the astronaut&#8217;s flight gear, help them climb aboard the shuttle and then secure them in their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The launch forecast is currently &#8220;green&#8221; or &#8220;go&#8221; with a 60 percent probability of favorable weather for liftoff at 4:14 a.m. EST. No technical issues are being reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STS-130 astronauts are striding out of the Operations and Checkout Building to the cheers and applause from the crowd of well-wishers as they head for NASA&#8217;s silver Astrovan, the vehicle that will take them to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>While the crew heads to the pad, a group of technicians known as the &#8220;Closeout Crew&#8221; is already inside Endeavour&#8217;s crew compartment getting the vehicle ready for their arrival. They will conduct the final check of the astronaut&#8217;s flight gear, help them climb aboard the shuttle and then secure them in their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The launch forecast is currently &#8220;green&#8221; or &#8220;go&#8221; with a 60 percent probability of favorable weather for liftoff at 4:14 a.m. EST. No technical issues are being reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}