{"id":20267,"date":"2010-04-04T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/f9a96616c354619e03ea9811cfd71169"},"modified":"2010-04-04T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:06:14","slug":"discoverys-fueling-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=20267","title":{"rendered":"Discovery&#8217;s Fueling Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is poised for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A. Filling of Discovery&#8217;s large, orange external fuel tank with chilled liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen is currently under way. The propellants began flowing into the tank at 9:28 p.m. EDT, and moved to the &#8220;fast fill&#8221; phase at 10:18 p.m. The process generally takes about three hours to complete, and the propellants are then held in a &#8220;stable replenish&#8221; mode after that.<\/p>\n<p>Weather is looking good, and launch remains scheduled for 6:21 a.m. Live launch coverage will begin 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, space shuttle Discovery is poised for liftoff from Launch Pad 39A. Filling of Discovery&#8217;s large, orange external fuel tank with chilled liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen is currently under way. The propellants began flowing into the tank at 9:28 p.m. EDT, and moved to the &#8220;fast fill&#8221; phase at 10:18 p.m. The process generally takes about three hours to complete, and the propellants are then held in a &#8220;stable replenish&#8221; mode after that.<\/p>\n<p>Weather is looking good, and launch remains scheduled for 6:21 a.m. Live launch coverage will begin 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-20267","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\/20267","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=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/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=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}