{"id":3240,"date":"2009-09-20T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/acfbdc2acefd718ab8ecb6760560b778"},"modified":"2009-09-20T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T13:26:49","slug":"discoverys-ferry-flight-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"Discovery&#8217;s Ferry Flight Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s 2,500 mile ferry flight back to NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center is under way. <br \/>The modified 747 carrying Discovery took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California at 9:20 a.m. EDT. Discovery&#8217;s &#8220;pathfinder&#8221; support aircraft, a NASA C-9 plane, departed about 9:10 a.m. <br \/>The aircraft are heading to Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo, Texas for a refueling stop.  <br \/>Teams will evaluate the weather again once they&#8217;re in Amarillo to determine the next refueling stop. Their objective is to get to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana this afternoon where they will stay overnight.  <br \/>Managers plan to have Discovery back at Kennedy on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s 2,500 mile ferry flight back to NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center is under way. <br \/>The modified 747 carrying Discovery took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California at 9:20 a.m. EDT. Discovery&#8217;s &#8220;pathfinder&#8221; support aircraft, a NASA C-9 plane, departed about 9:10 a.m. <br \/>The aircraft are heading to Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo, Texas for a refueling stop.  <br \/>Teams will evaluate the weather again once they&#8217;re in Amarillo to determine the next refueling stop. Their objective is to get to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana this afternoon where they will stay overnight.  <br \/>Managers plan to have Discovery back at Kennedy on Monday.<\/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-3240","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\/3240","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=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/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=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}