{"id":53635,"date":"2010-09-20T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T23:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/7edc4cc272f0f21fc135c3def73e23eb"},"modified":"2010-09-20T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T23:33:31","slug":"discovery-begins-to-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=53635","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Begins to Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery began its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center as it started its slow-motion exit from the Vehicle Assembly Building just before 7:30 p.m. EDT.     The spacecraft &#8212; which was the third to join NASA&#8217;s shuttle fleet &#8212; will make its final flight on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station, targeted for launch on Nov. 1.    Stacked with its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank on the mobile launcher platform, the shuttle&#8217;s slow roll atop a crawler-transporter should take about six and a half hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery began its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center as it started its slow-motion exit from the Vehicle Assembly Building just before 7:30 p.m. EDT.     The spacecraft &#8212; which was the third to join NASA&#8217;s shuttle fleet &#8212; will make its final flight on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station, targeted for launch on Nov. 1.    Stacked with its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank on the mobile launcher platform, the shuttle&#8217;s slow roll atop a crawler-transporter should take about six and a half hours.<\/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-53635","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\/53635","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=53635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53635\/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=53635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}