{"id":3255,"date":"2009-09-21T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/7f48e26c740d5363f1b52624b6e0376d"},"modified":"2009-09-21T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T16:01:39","slug":"shuttle-747-head-to-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle, 747 Head to Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight team thinks the weather is good enough to support a safe landing at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly. <br \/>The NASA C-9 &#8220;pathfinder&#8221; support aircraft will touch down at Kennedy&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility on runway 15 a little before the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with shuttle Discovery attached to it. <br \/>Because of the dynamic weather, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is expected to land directly at Kennedy rather than perform a flyover of the surrounding area known as the Space Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Discovery&#8217;s ferry flight team thinks the weather is good enough to support a safe landing at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly. <br \/>The NASA C-9 &#8220;pathfinder&#8221; support aircraft will touch down at Kennedy&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility on runway 15 a little before the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with shuttle Discovery attached to it. <br \/>Because of the dynamic weather, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is expected to land directly at Kennedy rather than perform a flyover of the surrounding area known as the Space Coast.<\/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-3255","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\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/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=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}