{"id":19233,"date":"2010-03-30T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/cf1ceed0568f63feb4b2cda13d6cf8f8"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:12:24","slug":"discovery-and-crew-draw-closer-to-launch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=19233","title":{"rendered":"Discovery and Crew Draw Closer to Launch Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Launch Pad 39A today, NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center technicians will pressurize space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s main propulsion system for flight in preparation for its 6:21 a.m. EDT liftoff on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-131 crew continues to slip their sleep schedules to accommodate their mission flight schedule, as they prepare to fly to Kennedy from their home base in Houston on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, NASA managers gave Discovery the &#8220;go&#8221; for launch after an all-day Flight Readiness Review meeting. At the review, they determined that there were no unresolved issues that would prevent Discovery and crew from flying a safe and successful mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Launch Pad 39A today, NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center technicians will pressurize space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s main propulsion system for flight in preparation for its 6:21 a.m. EDT liftoff on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The STS-131 crew continues to slip their sleep schedules to accommodate their mission flight schedule, as they prepare to fly to Kennedy from their home base in Houston on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, NASA managers gave Discovery the &#8220;go&#8221; for launch after an all-day Flight Readiness Review meeting. At the review, they determined that there were no unresolved issues that would prevent Discovery and crew from flying a safe and successful mission.<\/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-19233","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\/19233","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=19233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/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=19233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}