{"id":2833,"date":"2009-08-28T23:47:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a85c089a94b245f700af81e8ca159319"},"modified":"2009-08-28T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T03:47:31","slug":"launch-teams-go-for-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"Launch Teams &#8220;Go&#8221; for Liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery has been cleared for launch tonight at 11:59 EDT. The mission management team, mission control and the launch team have given unanimous &quot;go for launch&quot; calls as the countdown prepares to enter its final phase. The weather has improved throughout the evening and is no longer a factor tonight.<\/p>\n<p>  &quot;Looks like the third time really is the charm,&quot; STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko told Discovery&#8217;s crew.<\/p>\n<p>  Commander Rick &quot;C.J.&quot; Sturckow said the crew is ready. &quot;Let&#8217;s go step up the science on the International Space Station,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery has been cleared for launch tonight at 11:59 EDT. The mission management team, mission control and the launch team have given unanimous &quot;go for launch&quot; calls as the countdown prepares to enter its final phase. The weather has improved throughout the evening and is no longer a factor tonight.<\/p>\n<p>  &quot;Looks like the third time really is the charm,&quot; STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko told Discovery&#8217;s crew.<\/p>\n<p>  Commander Rick &quot;C.J.&quot; Sturckow said the crew is ready. &quot;Let&#8217;s go step up the science on the International Space Station,&quot; he said.<\/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-2833","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\/2833","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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/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=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}