The six astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis’s STS-129 mission to the International Space Station are now at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew arrived at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft Gulfstream II jet at 12:35 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n
After arriving, STS-129 Commander Charles O. Hobaugh and his crew made brief statements to the media who were gathered at the shuttle runway. <\/p>\n
"It’s a real honor and pleasure to be here," said Hobaugh. "This has been the culmination of at least nine months of us being together as a crew … we’ve been deeply entrenched in our training, getting to develop all of our individual requirements for accomplishing our objectives for this mission."<\/p>\n
The astronauts departed the landing strip and headed for the crew quarters of Kennedy’s Operations and Checkout Building to begin final preparations for liftoff.<\/p>\n
The official countdown clock begins counting backwards at 1 p.m. EST tomorrow towards Monday’s 2:28 p.m. launch.<\/p>\n
Tune in to the STS-129 countdown status briefing being aired on NASA TV and online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv, scheduled for 10 a.m. EST Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The six astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis’s STS-129 mission to the International Space Station are now at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew arrived at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft Gulfstream II jet at 12:35 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n
After arriving, STS-129 Commander Charles O. Hobaugh and his crew made brief statements to the media who were gathered at the shuttle runway. <\/p>\n
"It’s a real honor and pleasure to be here," said Hobaugh. "This has been the culmination of at least nine months of us being together as a crew … we’ve been deeply entrenched in our training, getting to develop all of our individual requirements for accomplishing our objectives for this mission."<\/p>\n
The astronauts departed the landing strip and headed for the crew quarters of Kennedy’s Operations and Checkout Building to begin final preparations for liftoff.<\/p>\n
The official countdown clock begins counting backwards at 1 p.m. EST tomorrow towards Monday’s 2:28 p.m. launch.<\/p>\n
Tune in to the STS-129 countdown status briefing being aired on NASA TV and online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv, scheduled for 10 a.m. EST Friday.<\/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-5577","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\/5577","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=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5583"}],"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=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}