{"id":14038,"date":"2010-03-03T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/f92b86858866d347f9b70b8e1286ebe2"},"modified":"2010-03-03T04:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T08:58:19","slug":"shuttle-discovery-launch-pad-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=14038","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Discovery Launch Pad Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s move to Launch Pad 39A for its STS-131 mission is<br \/>under way. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s<br \/>Kennedy Space Center in Florida was at 11:58 p.m. EST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a gusty wind at Kennedy, it&#8217;s not expected to exceed the allowable<br \/>limits of 40 knots (46 mph) with gusts to 60 knots (69 mph).<\/p>\n<p>Discovery is expected to complete its 3.4 mile trip and be secured down on<br \/>the launch pad at about 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Television&#8217;s live video coverage of the move, known as rollout, will<br \/>begin at 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The seven astronauts for Discovery&#8217;s STS-131 mission, who are at Kennedy for<br \/>their launch countdown dress rehearsal training called the Terminal<br \/>Countdown Demonstration Test, were on-hand to watch the start of rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s move to Launch Pad 39A for its STS-131 mission is<br \/>under way. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s<br \/>Kennedy Space Center in Florida was at 11:58 p.m. EST on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a gusty wind at Kennedy, it&#8217;s not expected to exceed the allowable<br \/>limits of 40 knots (46 mph) with gusts to 60 knots (69 mph).<\/p>\n<p>Discovery is expected to complete its 3.4 mile trip and be secured down on<br \/>the launch pad at about 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Television&#8217;s live video coverage of the move, known as rollout, will<br \/>begin at 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The seven astronauts for Discovery&#8217;s STS-131 mission, who are at Kennedy for<br \/>their launch countdown dress rehearsal training called the Terminal<br \/>Countdown Demonstration Test, were on-hand to watch the start of rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","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\/14038","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":94,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14740,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/14740"}],"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=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}