At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-129 mission astronauts will be traveling to Launch Pad 39A where they will practice emergency pad egress and other related safety training.<\/p>\n
While at the pad, the crew will have a brief question-and-answer period with the media broadcast on NASA TV. The media event will begin at 9:40 a.m. EDT and can be accessed at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n
In order to optimize NASA’s ability to launch both Atlantis and the Constellation Program’s Ares I-X flight test before the end of the year, the agency now is targeting Nov. 16 for the launch of Atlantis’ STS-129 mission to the International Space Station. Therefore, the crew will cut this Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT, short and conduct the remainder of launch dress rehearsal training Nov. 2 and 3.<\/p>\n
The same launch team at Kennedy is supporting both the shuttle and the Ares I-X flight test, which is targeted to lift off Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-129 mission astronauts will be traveling to Launch Pad 39A where they will practice emergency pad egress and other related safety training.<\/p>\n
While at the pad, the crew will have a brief question-and-answer period with the media broadcast on NASA TV. The media event will begin at 9:40 a.m. EDT and can be accessed at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n
In order to optimize NASA’s ability to launch both Atlantis and the Constellation Program’s Ares I-X flight test before the end of the year, the agency now is targeting Nov. 16 for the launch of Atlantis’ STS-129 mission to the International Space Station. Therefore, the crew will cut this Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT, short and conduct the remainder of launch dress rehearsal training Nov. 2 and 3.<\/p>\n
The same launch team at Kennedy is supporting both the shuttle and the Ares I-X flight test, which is targeted to lift off Oct. 27.<\/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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/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=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}