{"id":3230,"date":"2009-09-18T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/8e92de9f5991e97d130ebfa50a0ec2b9"},"modified":"2009-09-18T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:58:11","slug":"ferry-flight-preps-concluding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3230","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Flight Preps Concluding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After managers decided not to try to begin shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight Friday, teams took a little more time than originally planned overnight preparing for the 2,500 mile cross-country trip. Discovery was lifted for attachment to a modified 747 aircraft just after sunrise this morning at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Shuttle teams expect to have Discovery and its 747, called a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, ready for the piggyback flight by this evening. \u202a<\/p>\n<p>  Managers will meet with air crews and the weather team at 2 p.m. EDT today to discuss the possibility of a Saturday departure and decide the best route to get Discovery back home to NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Forecasters still are tracking a low pressure system over northeast Texas that has been influencing weather across the southeast.\u202a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After managers decided not to try to begin shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight Friday, teams took a little more time than originally planned overnight preparing for the 2,500 mile cross-country trip. Discovery was lifted for attachment to a modified 747 aircraft just after sunrise this morning at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Shuttle teams expect to have Discovery and its 747, called a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, ready for the piggyback flight by this evening. \u202a<\/p>\n<p>  Managers will meet with air crews and the weather team at 2 p.m. EDT today to discuss the possibility of a Saturday departure and decide the best route to get Discovery back home to NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Forecasters still are tracking a low pressure system over northeast Texas that has been influencing weather across the southeast.\u202a<\/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-3230","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\/3230","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=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/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=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}