{"id":24376,"date":"2010-04-27T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/4350e8fdf3d91ea16c7de6de5211ae07"},"modified":"2010-04-27T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:28:12","slug":"atlantis-preparations-continue-astronauts-train-for-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=24376","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Preparations Continue; Astronauts Train for Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A continue preparing space shuttle Atlantis for its upcoming STS-132 mission. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and crew will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station. The payload is safely installed in the shuttle&#8217;s cargo bay, and today technicians will close out the solid rocket boosters&#8217; aft skirts.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantis&#8217; six astronauts, led by Commander Ken Ham, are at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston after participating in last week&#8217;s Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test at Kennedy. Today, the crew members are preparing for the mission&#8217;s third spacewalk by practicing their procedures in Johnson&#8217;s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is targeted for May 14 at 2:20 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A continue preparing space shuttle Atlantis for its upcoming STS-132 mission. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and crew will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station. The payload is safely installed in the shuttle&#8217;s cargo bay, and today technicians will close out the solid rocket boosters&#8217; aft skirts.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantis&#8217; six astronauts, led by Commander Ken Ham, are at NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston after participating in last week&#8217;s Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test at Kennedy. Today, the crew members are preparing for the mission&#8217;s third spacewalk by practicing their procedures in Johnson&#8217;s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is targeted for May 14 at 2:20 p.m. EDT.<\/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-24376","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\/24376","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=24376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24389,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376\/revisions\/24389"}],"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=24376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}