{"id":2088,"date":"2006-07-01T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-01T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T20:36:55","slug":"launch-email-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Launch email question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email question says, &#8220;I am watching launch coverage on TV, and the sky looks blue and just a little overcast.  Why is the launch no go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few miles from the launch are thunderstorms which would interfer not with the launch, but with a launch abort situation called RTLS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RTLS is Return To Landing Site, meaning that should the shuttle have a launch problem that requires the orbiter to seperate from the External tank early, the clouds would cause problems with the landing.<\/p>\n<p>Please send your launch day email question to me at arthur@spaceweekly.com<\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email question says, &#8220;I am watching launch coverage on TV, and the sky looks blue and just a little overcast. Why is the launch no go?&#8221; A few miles&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}