Space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay doors are closed and everything continues to proceed on schedule for this morning’s landing. <\/p>\n
Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office Rick Sturckow is flying weather reconnaissance at Kennedy Space Center to provide real-time observations that will aid in the decision to land. Sturckow is reporting “severe clear” skies and no weather concerns. Weather is both observed and forecast “go.” <\/p>\n
At 2:19 a.m., Entry Flight Director Tony Ceccacci is expected to give a “go” for Atlantis’ computers to begin running the Ops 3 entry software. At 2:49 a.m. a “go” is expected for crew suit up. The “go” for deorbit burn is expected by 4:29 a.m.<\/p>\n
The deorbit burn is scheduled for 4:49:04 a.m. and will lead to a landing at 5:56:58 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay doors are closed and everything continues to proceed on schedule for this morning’s landing. <\/p>\n
Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office Rick Sturckow is flying weather reconnaissance at Kennedy Space Center to provide real-time observations that will aid in the decision to land. Sturckow is reporting “severe clear” skies and no weather concerns. Weather is both observed and forecast “go.” <\/p>\n
At 2:19 a.m., Entry Flight Director Tony Ceccacci is expected to give a “go” for Atlantis’ computers to begin running the Ops 3 entry software. At 2:49 a.m. a “go” is expected for crew suit up. The “go” for deorbit burn is expected by 4:29 a.m.<\/p>\n
The deorbit burn is scheduled for 4:49:04 a.m. and will lead to a landing at 5:56:58 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236452","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\/236452","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236453,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236452\/revisions\/236453"}],"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=236452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}