{"id":4693,"date":"2009-10-26T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/288ef2075a7ab3b791de7282478d1f6d"},"modified":"2009-10-26T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:32:07","slug":"atlantis-gets-final-checks-commander-and-pilot-at-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Gets Final Checks; Commander and Pilot at Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians at Launch Pad 39A will begin final system checks in the aft, or back, section of space shuttle Atlantis today. <\/p>\n<p>  Also, a retest of Atlantis&#8217; main propulsion pressure valve system, or engine piping, will take place today. This &quot;closeout&quot; work will be in progress all week.<\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, the STS-129 astronauts will be practicing for the mission&#8217;s third spacewalk in the massive swimming pool, called the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, near NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>  This afternoon, STS-129 Commander Charlie Hobaugh and Pilot Barry Wilmore will fly their T-38 jets to Kennedy for training associated with the mission&#8217;s space station payload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians at Launch Pad 39A will begin final system checks in the aft, or back, section of space shuttle Atlantis today. <\/p>\n<p>  Also, a retest of Atlantis&#8217; main propulsion pressure valve system, or engine piping, will take place today. This &quot;closeout&quot; work will be in progress all week.<\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile, the STS-129 astronauts will be practicing for the mission&#8217;s third spacewalk in the massive swimming pool, called the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, near NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>  This afternoon, STS-129 Commander Charlie Hobaugh and Pilot Barry Wilmore will fly their T-38 jets to Kennedy for training associated with the mission&#8217;s space station payload.<\/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-4693","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\/4693","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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/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=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}