{"id":15301,"date":"2010-03-11T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/72cab08aa442f20d90fb91a5ef4aaa88"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:33:39","slug":"crew-and-shuttle-preparations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=15301","title":{"rendered":"Crew and Shuttle Preparations Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, technicians at Launch Pad 39A are loading space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s solid rocket booster hydraulic power units with hydrazine in preparation for its targeted launch on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-131 astronauts are reviewing docking and robotics systems manuals at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Commander Alan Poindexter and Pilot James P. Dutton Jr. will wrap up the day with a training run in the Shuttle Training Aircraft at the White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, N.M.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Space Shuttle Program managers wrapped up their review of Discovery&#8217;s readiness for flight. The meeting was a precursor to the agency&#8217;s executive-level review on March 26, which will establish a firm launch date for this next mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, technicians at Launch Pad 39A are loading space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s solid rocket booster hydraulic power units with hydrazine in preparation for its targeted launch on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-131 astronauts are reviewing docking and robotics systems manuals at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Commander Alan Poindexter and Pilot James P. Dutton Jr. will wrap up the day with a training run in the Shuttle Training Aircraft at the White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, N.M.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Space Shuttle Program managers wrapped up their review of Discovery&#8217;s readiness for flight. The meeting was a precursor to the agency&#8217;s executive-level review on March 26, which will establish a firm launch date for this next mission to the International Space Station.<\/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-15301","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\/15301","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=15301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301\/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=15301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}