Space shuttle Discovery is in the final stages of preparation before its flight to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <\/p>\n
Fueling of Discovery’s external tank with 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and hydrogen is scheduled to begin at 4:11 p.m. EDT, depending on weather conditions at the time.<\/p>\n
The "topping off" of propellants into the tank will continue until Discovery’s liftoff. All systems aboard the shuttle are functioning normally and no issues are being reported. <\/p>\n
Weather continues to be 80 percent acceptable for a 1:36 a.m. Tuesday launch.<\/p>\n
Coverage of Discovery’s liftoff on the STS-128 mission begins Monday at 8:30 p.m. Follow the countdown with NASA’s launch blog and live commentary broadcast on NASA TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space shuttle Discovery is in the final stages of preparation before its flight to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <\/p>\n
Fueling of Discovery’s external tank with 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and hydrogen is scheduled to begin at 4:11 p.m. EDT, depending on weather conditions at the time.<\/p>\n
The "topping off" of propellants into the tank will continue until Discovery’s liftoff. All systems aboard the shuttle are functioning normally and no issues are being reported. <\/p>\n
Weather continues to be 80 percent acceptable for a 1:36 a.m. Tuesday launch.<\/p>\n
Coverage of Discovery’s liftoff on the STS-128 mission begins Monday at 8:30 p.m. Follow the countdown with NASA’s launch blog and live commentary broadcast on NASA TV.<\/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-2716","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\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2718"}],"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=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}