With liftoff now only a week away, final preps are under way for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. Launch officially is set for May 14 at 2:20 p.m. EDT. <\/p>\n
At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, technicians will close shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay doors in support of payload operations.<\/p>\n
Commander Ken Ham will lead the six-member astronaut crew during the 12-day flight. The astronauts are enjoying a second day off today before going into quarantine tonight in preparation for their upcoming mission. They’re scheduled to arrive at Kennedy on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Atlantis and crew will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module. The countdown will begin May 11 at 4 p.m. when countdown clocks at the oceanside launch complex begin ticking backward from the T-43 hour mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With liftoff now only a week away, final preps are under way for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. Launch officially is set for May 14 at 2:20 p.m. EDT. <\/p>\n
At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, technicians will close shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay doors in support of payload operations.<\/p>\n
Commander Ken Ham will lead the six-member astronaut crew during the 12-day flight. The astronauts are enjoying a second day off today before going into quarantine tonight in preparation for their upcoming mission. They’re scheduled to arrive at Kennedy on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Atlantis and crew will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module. The countdown will begin May 11 at 4 p.m. when countdown clocks at the oceanside launch complex begin ticking backward from the T-43 hour mark.<\/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-26528","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\/26528","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=26528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528\/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=26528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}