{"id":109140,"date":"2011-07-04T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/489bf13259e9d8c239ffe708e96caf48"},"modified":"2011-07-04T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T18:58:56","slug":"astronauts-arrive-at-kennedy-for-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=109140","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Arrive at Kennedy for Final Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Fourth of July, the four STS-135 crew members arrived in two T-38 jets at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility at approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim spoke to media before being transported to the Astronaut Crew Quarters in Kennedy&#8217;s Operations and Checkout Building, where they will spend the next few days training and spend time with family before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think I speak for the whole crew in that we are delighted to be here after a very arduous nine month training flow and we&#8217;re thrilled to finally be here in Florida for launch week,&quot; said Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Launch of space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for Friday, July 8, at 11:26 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Fourth of July, the four STS-135 crew members arrived in two T-38 jets at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility at approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim spoke to media before being transported to the Astronaut Crew Quarters in Kennedy&#8217;s Operations and Checkout Building, where they will spend the next few days training and spend time with family before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think I speak for the whole crew in that we are delighted to be here after a very arduous nine month training flow and we&#8217;re thrilled to finally be here in Florida for launch week,&quot; said Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Launch of space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for Friday, July 8, at 11:26 a.m.<\/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-109140","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\/109140","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=109140"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109698,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109140\/revisions\/109698"}],"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=109140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}