{"id":2704,"date":"2009-08-21T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/7a82236d2f4f608e80c9730ec750463f"},"modified":"2009-08-21T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T03:08:15","slug":"sts-128s-official-countdown-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"STS-128&#8217;s Official Countdown Under Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown for the launch of space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s STS-128 mission officially is under way. The count began on-time at 11 p.m. EDT at the T-43 hour mark.<\/p>\n<p> Launch teams are not working any issues that would prevent Discovery&#8217;s scheduled launch Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m. on its 13-day mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p> Discovery&#8217;s seven astronauts have additional mission study time in their overnight schedule before they head into their sleep period at 7 a.m. Saturday. The crew is scheduled to wake up at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Tune in for the next countdown status briefing on NASA TV on Saturday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown for the launch of space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s STS-128 mission officially is under way. The count began on-time at 11 p.m. EDT at the T-43 hour mark.<\/p>\n<p> Launch teams are not working any issues that would prevent Discovery&#8217;s scheduled launch Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m. on its 13-day mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p> Discovery&#8217;s seven astronauts have additional mission study time in their overnight schedule before they head into their sleep period at 7 a.m. Saturday. The crew is scheduled to wake up at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Tune in for the next countdown status briefing on NASA TV on Saturday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","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\/2704","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/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=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}