{"id":22678,"date":"2010-04-19T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/4966b58cf759281a343fd4a421b9d378"},"modified":"2010-04-19T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:46:36","slug":"weather-forecast-for-landing-not-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=22678","title":{"rendered":"Weather Forecast for Landing Not Promising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew&#8217;s wakeup call at 12:21 a.m. EDT was &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner,&#8221; played for Commander Alan G. Poindexter, who is wrapping up his second spaceflight. A U.S. Navy captain, Poindexter served as a pilot on STS-122 in February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>  Forecasts for a landing at Kennedy Space Center are not promising, calling for high overcast and two layers of scattered clouds, as well as a chance of showers in the area. If needed, on Tuesday there are landing opportunities at Kennedy and the backup runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>  Weather permitting, the first landing opportunity in Florida is scheduled for today at 8:48 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew&#8217;s wakeup call at 12:21 a.m. EDT was &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner,&#8221; played for Commander Alan G. Poindexter, who is wrapping up his second spaceflight. A U.S. Navy captain, Poindexter served as a pilot on STS-122 in February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>  Forecasts for a landing at Kennedy Space Center are not promising, calling for high overcast and two layers of scattered clouds, as well as a chance of showers in the area. If needed, on Tuesday there are landing opportunities at Kennedy and the backup runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>  Weather permitting, the first landing opportunity in Florida is scheduled for today at 8:48 a.m.<\/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-22678","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\/22678","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=22678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22720,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions\/22720"}],"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=22678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}