{"id":51228,"date":"2010-09-10T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/be88edea89a400c5716a38cd1076b603"},"modified":"2010-09-10T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:37:20","slug":"discovery-undergoes-connection-to-tank-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=51228","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Undergoes Connection to Tank, Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery is being connected to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today as preparations continue on pace for the STS-133 mission. Rollout to the launch pad is scheduled for Sept. 20. Liftoff is targeted for Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>  At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center, the STS-133 crew is involved in an integrated ascent simulation today and will hone their Thermal Protection System repair skills to close out their week of training.\u202a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery is being connected to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today as preparations continue on pace for the STS-133 mission. Rollout to the launch pad is scheduled for Sept. 20. Liftoff is targeted for Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>  At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center, the STS-133 crew is involved in an integrated ascent simulation today and will hone their Thermal Protection System repair skills to close out their week of training.\u202a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51228","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\/51228","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51228\/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=51228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}