{"id":19800,"date":"2010-04-02T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/ddad759e8dd96f3d4f025cc994ebee37"},"modified":"2010-04-02T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:26:52","slug":"as-the-countdown-gets-under-way-all-is-still-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=19800","title":{"rendered":"As the Countdown Gets Under Way, All is Still &#8220;Go&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this morning&#8217;s countdown status briefing, NASA Test Director Steve Payne reported that all launch preparations continue to go well as the official countdown is now under way, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re eager to get Discovery flying on Monday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters also reported good news, saying that the launch-time conditions continue to be very favorable. The only reason for a remaining 20 percent chance of &#8220;no-go&#8221; weather is the possibility of early morning fog. The weather would be similar if a 24-hour turnaround was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown kicked off at 3 a.m. EDT this morning when the official clock started counting back from the T-43 hour point. Liftoff of Discovery and the seven-member crew on the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station is set for 6:21 a.m. on April 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this morning&#8217;s countdown status briefing, NASA Test Director Steve Payne reported that all launch preparations continue to go well as the official countdown is now under way, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re eager to get Discovery flying on Monday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters also reported good news, saying that the launch-time conditions continue to be very favorable. The only reason for a remaining 20 percent chance of &#8220;no-go&#8221; weather is the possibility of early morning fog. The weather would be similar if a 24-hour turnaround was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown kicked off at 3 a.m. EDT this morning when the official clock started counting back from the T-43 hour point. Liftoff of Discovery and the seven-member crew on the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station is set for 6:21 a.m. on April 5.<\/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-19800","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\/19800","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=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/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=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}