{"id":2847,"date":"2009-08-30T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/be74ac8416cdb0a923970d8a8f0286f1"},"modified":"2009-08-30T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T17:52:50","slug":"discovery-crew-prepares-for-docking-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Crew Prepares for Docking Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s crew was awakened at 1:30 p.m. EDT with the song &#8220;Made to Love&#8221; by Toby Mac and played for Mission Specialist Nicole Stott. Commander Rick Sturckow and his six crewmates will dock Discovery to the International Space Station this evening, after completing a series of rendezvous operations and maneuvers that begin at 3:29 p.m. The Terminal Initiation Burn is targeted for 6:25 p.m. The Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, planned to enable station crew to photograph Discovery&#8217;s heat shield from a distance of about 600 feet, is scheduled for 8:02 p.m. Docking will follow at 9:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>  Two news briefings will air on NASA Television today, a 4 p.m. Post-Mission Management Team briefing and a midnight Mission Status Briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s crew was awakened at 1:30 p.m. EDT with the song &#8220;Made to Love&#8221; by Toby Mac and played for Mission Specialist Nicole Stott. Commander Rick Sturckow and his six crewmates will dock Discovery to the International Space Station this evening, after completing a series of rendezvous operations and maneuvers that begin at 3:29 p.m. The Terminal Initiation Burn is targeted for 6:25 p.m. The Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, planned to enable station crew to photograph Discovery&#8217;s heat shield from a distance of about 600 feet, is scheduled for 8:02 p.m. Docking will follow at 9:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>  Two news briefings will air on NASA Television today, a 4 p.m. Post-Mission Management Team briefing and a midnight Mission Status Briefing.<\/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-2847","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\/2847","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=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/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=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}