{"id":3697,"date":"2009-10-14T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/c654593170e8804bccb0ad040af00956"},"modified":"2009-10-14T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T16:14:32","slug":"atlantis-is-at-the-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis is at the Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis has reached Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle stack should be secure on the pad&#8217;s fixed service structure within the hour. <\/p>\n<p>  At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-129 astronauts are rehearsing orbit maneuvers today in the fixed base simulator.<\/p>\n<p>  The simulator mimics the dials and controls of the shuttle along with monitors that animate a view from outside the shuttle&#8217;s window. Johnson technicians program the simulator&#8217;s software to throw various problem situations at the crew to make sure they can cope with anything while in flight.  <\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, the Space Shuttle Program&#8217;s Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, is scheduled for Oct. 20 and 21. The executive-level FRR with NASA managers to set an official launch date is planned for Oct. 29 and will be held at Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis has reached Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle stack should be secure on the pad&#8217;s fixed service structure within the hour. <\/p>\n<p>  At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-129 astronauts are rehearsing orbit maneuvers today in the fixed base simulator.<\/p>\n<p>  The simulator mimics the dials and controls of the shuttle along with monitors that animate a view from outside the shuttle&#8217;s window. Johnson technicians program the simulator&#8217;s software to throw various problem situations at the crew to make sure they can cope with anything while in flight.  <\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, the Space Shuttle Program&#8217;s Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, is scheduled for Oct. 20 and 21. The executive-level FRR with NASA managers to set an official launch date is planned for Oct. 29 and will be held at Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","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\/3697","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/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=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}