{"id":107694,"date":"2011-06-29T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/9b0d4d77ca930fc970b96e446297e2f8"},"modified":"2011-06-29T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T12:48:11","slug":"atlantis-and-crew-prepared-for-july-8-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=107694","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis and Crew Prepared for July 8 Liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch pad technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are in the process of closing out space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; payload bay in preparation for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A on July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. The bay&#8217;s doors are expected to be closed for flight today.<\/p>\n<p>This follows yesterday&#8217;s day-long Flight Readiness Review at which senior NASA and contractor managers confirmed that Atlantis is ready for this last shuttle flight to supply the International Space Station. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This flight is incredibly important. The cargo that is coming up on this flight is really mandatory for space station,&#8221; said Bill Gerstenmaier, assistant administrator for space operations, following yesterday&#8217;s review.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for this final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, the STS-135 astronauts will undergo their L-10 physicals today at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch pad technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are in the process of closing out space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; payload bay in preparation for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A on July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. The bay&#8217;s doors are expected to be closed for flight today.<\/p>\n<p>This follows yesterday&#8217;s day-long Flight Readiness Review at which senior NASA and contractor managers confirmed that Atlantis is ready for this last shuttle flight to supply the International Space Station. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This flight is incredibly important. The cargo that is coming up on this flight is really mandatory for space station,&#8221; said Bill Gerstenmaier, assistant administrator for space operations, following yesterday&#8217;s review.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for this final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, the STS-135 astronauts will undergo their L-10 physicals today at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107694","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\/107694","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107694\/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=107694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}