Just one day after space shuttle Discovery and its crew successfully completed the STS-131 mission by landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations for the next mission to the International Space Station are in full swing.<\/p>\n
The STS-132 astronauts, led by Commander Ken Ham, flew to Kennedy in T-38 jets Tuesday evening and will spend the rest of the week conducting the standard prelaunch training and countdown dress rehearsal known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT.<\/p>\n
Rollout of space shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A was again delayed by weather today, with the move now set to begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT Thursday. The 3.4-mile trip normally takes about six hours, and tonight’s weather forecast is favorable. STS-132 is the last planned mission for Atlantis.<\/p>\n
Following their successful 15-day mission, the STS-131 astronauts will return to their home base at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston later this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just one day after space shuttle Discovery and its crew successfully completed the STS-131 mission by landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations for the next mission to the International Space Station are in full swing.<\/p>\n
The STS-132 astronauts, led by Commander Ken Ham, flew to Kennedy in T-38 jets Tuesday evening and will spend the rest of the week conducting the standard prelaunch training and countdown dress rehearsal known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT.<\/p>\n
Rollout of space shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A was again delayed by weather today, with the move now set to begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT Thursday. The 3.4-mile trip normally takes about six hours, and tonight’s weather forecast is favorable. STS-132 is the last planned mission for Atlantis.<\/p>\n
Following their successful 15-day mission, the STS-131 astronauts will return to their home base at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston later this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23113","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\/23113","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113\/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=23113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}