Wednesday is “L-2” at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, meaning there are only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. Countdown clocks across the launch complex were activated at 4 p.m. Tuesday and the countdown continues on schedule for liftoff Friday at 2:20 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n
After today’s mission management team meeting, NASA managers will hold a news conference no earlier than 11 a.m. Participants are Mike Moses, chair of the prelaunch mission management team, Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director, and Todd McNamara, STS-132 weather officer. Watch the event live on NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n
Atlantis’ six astronauts are relaxing today while technicians at Launch Pad 39A load the orbiter’s power reactant and storage distribution system, which supplies super-cold propellants to the vehicle’s three fuel cells and life-support system during flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wednesday is “L-2” at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, meaning there are only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. Countdown clocks across the launch complex were activated at 4 p.m. Tuesday and the countdown continues on schedule for liftoff Friday at 2:20 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n
After today’s mission management team meeting, NASA managers will hold a news conference no earlier than 11 a.m. Participants are Mike Moses, chair of the prelaunch mission management team, Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director, and Todd McNamara, STS-132 weather officer. Watch the event live on NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n
Atlantis’ six astronauts are relaxing today while technicians at Launch Pad 39A load the orbiter’s power reactant and storage distribution system, which supplies super-cold propellants to the vehicle’s three fuel cells and life-support system during flight.<\/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-27688","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\/27688","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=27688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27688\/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=27688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}