{"id":2816,"date":"2009-08-28T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/ffcba6364ab47186a62e6d0f703fa6f6"},"modified":"2009-08-28T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:38:14","slug":"valve-working-well-as-tanking-moves-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"Valve Working Well as Tanking Moves Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanking of space shuttle Discovery is continuing and going well at Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The filling operations have transitioned to reduced fast fill on LH2 and have a good &quot;closed&quot; indication on the LH2 inboard fill and drain valve. Tanking operations are expected to conclude at about 5:45 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>  Liftoff of Discovery on the STS-128 mission remains on schedule for 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight and the weather remains the primary concern. The forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions. Meteorologists are watching for signs of anvil clouds and thunderstorms within 20 miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanking of space shuttle Discovery is continuing and going well at Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The filling operations have transitioned to reduced fast fill on LH2 and have a good &quot;closed&quot; indication on the LH2 inboard fill and drain valve. Tanking operations are expected to conclude at about 5:45 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>  Liftoff of Discovery on the STS-128 mission remains on schedule for 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight and the weather remains the primary concern. The forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions. Meteorologists are watching for signs of anvil clouds and thunderstorms within 20 miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility.<\/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-2816","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\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/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=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}