{"id":20343,"date":"2010-04-05T06:21:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/9d15752ca70c7c966b2fb1888ae6330c"},"modified":"2010-04-05T06:21:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:21:36","slug":"liftoff-discovery-roars-toward-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=20343","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff! Discovery Roars Toward Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven astronauts are headed to space, beginning a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Discovery&#8217;s two solid rocket boosters ignited right on schedule at 6:21 a.m. EDT, sending the shuttle soaring past the launch tower at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The boosters will burn out about two minutes into the climb, as Discovery&#8217;s three main engines finish the job of delivering it to orbit and the external fuel tank falls away. Main engine cutoff will come at about eight and a half minutes into the flight.<\/p>\n<p>  The post-launch news conference will begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT and will be carried live on NASA TV and on the Web at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven astronauts are headed to space, beginning a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Discovery&#8217;s two solid rocket boosters ignited right on schedule at 6:21 a.m. EDT, sending the shuttle soaring past the launch tower at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The boosters will burn out about two minutes into the climb, as Discovery&#8217;s three main engines finish the job of delivering it to orbit and the external fuel tank falls away. Main engine cutoff will come at about eight and a half minutes into the flight.<\/p>\n<p>  The post-launch news conference will begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT and will be carried live on NASA TV and on the Web 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-20343","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\/20343","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=20343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20362,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions\/20362"}],"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=20343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}