{"id":112665,"date":"2011-07-20T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/2f32861c07dc24eca78a90adea75a1cb"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:08:07","slug":"astronauts-wrapping-up-preparations-for-landing-early-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=112665","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Wrapping Up Preparations for Landing Early Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned landing at 5:56:58 a.m. EDT Thursday at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew stowed the Ku-Band antenna, used for high-data rate communications and television from space, at 11:34 a.m. and will go to sleep at 1:29 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mission managers have cleared Atlantis&#8217; heat shield for entry after reviewing results of the &#8220;late inspection&#8221; survey of the shuttle&#8217;s reinforced carbon carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-135 landing ground tracks for Thursday&#8217;s two Kennedy landing opportunities are here: http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts135\/news\/landing.html<\/p>\n<p>The official Spaceflight Meteorology Group landing forecast for Kennedy remains very favorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned landing at 5:56:58 a.m. EDT Thursday at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew stowed the Ku-Band antenna, used for high-data rate communications and television from space, at 11:34 a.m. and will go to sleep at 1:29 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mission managers have cleared Atlantis&#8217; heat shield for entry after reviewing results of the &#8220;late inspection&#8221; survey of the shuttle&#8217;s reinforced carbon carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-135 landing ground tracks for Thursday&#8217;s two Kennedy landing opportunities are here: http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts135\/news\/landing.html<\/p>\n<p>The official Spaceflight Meteorology Group landing forecast for Kennedy remains very favorable.<\/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-112665","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\/112665","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=112665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112665\/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=112665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}