{"id":19639,"date":"2010-04-01T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/4e48b6ade9296f11b3455f4f2d952511"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:44:32","slug":"discoverys-crew-arrives-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=19639","title":{"rendered":"Discovery&#8217;s Crew Arrives for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s seven astronauts arrived at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, touching down on the Shuttle Landing Facility&#8217;s runway at 6:53 a.m. EDT in a modified Gulfstream II jet.<\/p>\n<p>In brief remarks before leaving the runway, Commander Alan Poindexter said that the crew is very happy to be at Kennedy, adding, &#8220;We had a short flyby of the pad and saw the good ship Discovery out there and it looks great and we&#8217;re ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As crews at Launch Pad 39A continue Discovery&#8217;s final preparations for flight, at 3 a.m. tomorrow, the countdown clock is set to begin ticking down toward a 6:21 a.m. liftoff on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s seven astronauts arrived at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, touching down on the Shuttle Landing Facility&#8217;s runway at 6:53 a.m. EDT in a modified Gulfstream II jet.<\/p>\n<p>In brief remarks before leaving the runway, Commander Alan Poindexter said that the crew is very happy to be at Kennedy, adding, &#8220;We had a short flyby of the pad and saw the good ship Discovery out there and it looks great and we&#8217;re ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As crews at Launch Pad 39A continue Discovery&#8217;s final preparations for flight, at 3 a.m. tomorrow, the countdown clock is set to begin ticking down toward a 6:21 a.m. liftoff on Monday.<\/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-19639","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\/19639","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=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/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=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}