{"id":57538,"date":"2010-10-12T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/d6ec3a64e99b125c97caa5874bdbba15"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:43:33","slug":"discovery-astronauts-arrive-today-for-tcdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=57538","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Astronauts Arrive Today for TCDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing today for the STS-133 Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The TCDT, as it is known, is a standard countdown dress rehearsal that gives the astronauts and control teams a chance to run through all their launch day procedures. The six astronauts who will fly the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station are to arrive at Kennedy at about 5 p.m. today and will go through training sessions during the week.<\/p>\n<p>  At the launch pad, where space shuttle Discovery is going through its own TCDT and launch preparations, the Permanent Multipurpose Module and Express Logistics Carrier-4 were installed in the shuttle&#8217;s payload bay yesterday. The PMM has been packed with supplies, experiments and equipment. Robonaut 2 is also making the trip to the station inside the cargo module.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing today for the STS-133 Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The TCDT, as it is known, is a standard countdown dress rehearsal that gives the astronauts and control teams a chance to run through all their launch day procedures. The six astronauts who will fly the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station are to arrive at Kennedy at about 5 p.m. today and will go through training sessions during the week.<\/p>\n<p>  At the launch pad, where space shuttle Discovery is going through its own TCDT and launch preparations, the Permanent Multipurpose Module and Express Logistics Carrier-4 were installed in the shuttle&#8217;s payload bay yesterday. The PMM has been packed with supplies, experiments and equipment. Robonaut 2 is also making the trip to the station inside the cargo module.<\/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-57538","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\/57538","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=57538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57538\/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=57538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}