Following this afternoon’s Ferry Flight Readiness Review meeting at NASA’s Dryden Research Center, shuttle managers are giving a “go” for space shuttle Discovery’s ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But because of a complex weather pattern across the southeastern United States, managers decided not to begin the cross-country trek Friday.<\/p>\n
Forecasters are tracking a slow moving low pressure system over northeast Texas that has been influencing weather across the southeast. <\/p>\n
Shuttle teams expect to have Discovery and its modified 747 aircraft ready for the piggyback flight by mid-to-late Friday morning. Then they plan to meet at 2 p.m. EDT to review departure preparations, the latest weather forecasts and determine the best route and timing to get Discovery back to Kennedy.<\/p>\n
A major milestone of attaching the tail cone over Discovery’s engines was completed Thursday. Overnight, teams plan to lift Discovery and attach it to the top of the 747.<\/p>\n
Discovery landed at Edwards Sept. 11, ending its STS-128 mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following this afternoon’s Ferry Flight Readiness Review meeting at NASA’s Dryden Research Center, shuttle managers are giving a “go” for space shuttle Discovery’s ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But because of a complex weather pattern across the southeastern United States, managers decided not to begin the cross-country trek Friday.<\/p>\n
Forecasters are tracking a slow moving low pressure system over northeast Texas that has been influencing weather across the southeast. <\/p>\n
Shuttle teams expect to have Discovery and its modified 747 aircraft ready for the piggyback flight by mid-to-late Friday morning. Then they plan to meet at 2 p.m. EDT to review departure preparations, the latest weather forecasts and determine the best route and timing to get Discovery back to Kennedy.<\/p>\n
A major milestone of attaching the tail cone over Discovery’s engines was completed Thursday. Overnight, teams plan to lift Discovery and attach it to the top of the 747.<\/p>\n
Discovery landed at Edwards Sept. 11, ending its STS-128 mission to the International Space Station.<\/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-3219","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\/3219","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=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/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=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}