{"id":2205,"date":"2009-08-07T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/da5f203b264ec4e21346d289ca3bd0ab"},"modified":"2009-08-07T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:28:14","slug":"practice-countdown-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Practice Countdown Under Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seven astronauts who will board Discovery in a few weeks to ride into space are rehearsing launch day today at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will run through all the steps including strapping into Discovery&#8217;s cockpit and middeck, and radio checks. The practice, known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, will conclude just before the engines would ignite during a real countdown. Once the work is complete, the crew will return to Houston this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven astronauts who will board Discovery in a few weeks to ride into space are rehearsing launch day today at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will run through all the steps including strapping into Discovery&#8217;s cockpit and middeck, and radio checks. The practice, known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, will conclude just before the engines would ignite during a real countdown. Once the work is complete, the crew will return to Houston this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","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\/2205","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/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=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}