{"id":20205,"date":"2010-04-04T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/e10e5cd4fbeb56ac86a742db79daf05f"},"modified":"2010-04-04T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:18:29","slug":"discovery-poised-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=20205","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Poised for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure, or RSS, rolled back Sunday morning revealing space shuttle Discovery ready for launch. The rollback is in final preparation for Discovery&#8217;s scheduled 6:21 a.m. EDT liftoff Monday, Apr. 5 on the STS-131 mission.<\/p>\n<p> The Mission Management Team plans to meet tonight around 8:15 p.m. to give Discovery its &quot;go\/no-go&quot; decision for fueling. If given the &#8220;go&#8221;, the filling of Discovery&#8217;s external tank should begin around 9 p.m. with NASA TV&#8217;s tanking coverage scheduled to begin at 8:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Live launch coverage will kick off on NASA TV and on NASA&#8217;s Launch Blog at 1:15 a.m. Monday. The Launch Blog can be found at www.nasa.gov\/launch and NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure, or RSS, rolled back Sunday morning revealing space shuttle Discovery ready for launch. The rollback is in final preparation for Discovery&#8217;s scheduled 6:21 a.m. EDT liftoff Monday, Apr. 5 on the STS-131 mission.<\/p>\n<p> The Mission Management Team plans to meet tonight around 8:15 p.m. to give Discovery its &quot;go\/no-go&quot; decision for fueling. If given the &#8220;go&#8221;, the filling of Discovery&#8217;s external tank should begin around 9 p.m. with NASA TV&#8217;s tanking coverage scheduled to begin at 8:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Live launch coverage will kick off on NASA TV and on NASA&#8217;s Launch Blog at 1:15 a.m. Monday. The Launch Blog can be found at www.nasa.gov\/launch and NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/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-20205","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\/20205","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=20205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205\/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=20205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}