{"id":3252,"date":"2009-09-21T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/36a0bdc88bda178616921ee3b651b035"},"modified":"2009-09-21T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:23:41","slug":"weather-challenges-ferry-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Weather Challenges Ferry Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight team plans to depart Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana within the hour and head to NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. But weather is going to present challenges. <\/p>\n<p>  The 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with shuttle Discovery on top and NASA&#8217;s C-9 &quot;pathfinder&quot; support aircraft will have to navigate through a line of showers across Louisiana. In addition, there are storms currently around Kennedy. The team will have to make real-time decisions and see whether those storms break up and Discovery can touch down at the Shuttle Landing Facility once the 747 and pathfinder aircraft near Florida&#8217;s east coast. <\/p>\n<p>  If not, the ferry flight team plans to divert to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida to refuel and temporarily wait for a break in the weather. The exact timing of a possible landing at Kennedy today isn&#8217;t known now because it will be based on weather conditions in flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight team plans to depart Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana within the hour and head to NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. But weather is going to present challenges. <\/p>\n<p>  The 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with shuttle Discovery on top and NASA&#8217;s C-9 &quot;pathfinder&quot; support aircraft will have to navigate through a line of showers across Louisiana. In addition, there are storms currently around Kennedy. The team will have to make real-time decisions and see whether those storms break up and Discovery can touch down at the Shuttle Landing Facility once the 747 and pathfinder aircraft near Florida&#8217;s east coast. <\/p>\n<p>  If not, the ferry flight team plans to divert to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida to refuel and temporarily wait for a break in the weather. The exact timing of a possible landing at Kennedy today isn&#8217;t known now because it will be based on weather conditions in flight.<\/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-3252","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\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/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=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}