{"id":5912,"date":"2009-11-16T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/1b48b449386ae722f39bc2220bce6dc5"},"modified":"2009-11-16T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:28:46","slug":"liftoff-of-space-shuttle-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=5912","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six astronauts are headed for space, ready to begin their 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The climb to orbit takes about 8 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>  Following a smooth countdown, with no technical issues and weather that steadily improved throughout the afternoon, the shuttle lifted off on time from Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:28 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA TV will air a post-launch news conference at no earlier than 3:30 p.m. EST, and on the Web at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six astronauts are headed for space, ready to begin their 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The climb to orbit takes about 8 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>  Following a smooth countdown, with no technical issues and weather that steadily improved throughout the afternoon, the shuttle lifted off on time from Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:28 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA TV will air a post-launch news conference at no earlier than 3:30 p.m. EST, and on the Web at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/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-5912","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\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5927"}],"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=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}