{"id":5916,"date":"2009-11-16T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/22964969e887faee88c77e01d394a116"},"modified":"2009-11-16T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:52:17","slug":"atlantis-hatch-is-closed-and-latched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis&#8217; Hatch is Closed and Latched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A, space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew access hatch has been closed and locked for flight. <\/p>\n<p>  All six STS-129 astronauts are safely strapped into their seats and are awaiting liftoff at 2:28 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n<p>  The Closeout Crew will pressurize the crew cabin, check for leaks and then finish up remaining work inside the pad&#8217;s White Room before leaving the area.<\/p>\n<p>  The weather forecast remains &quot;go&quot; at the launch site and the Transoceanic Abort Landing, or TAL, sites where the shuttle could land in the unlikely event of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA&#8217;s recovery ships, Liberty Star and Freedom Star are stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, ready to gather up the solid rocket boosters after they fall into the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A, space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew access hatch has been closed and locked for flight. <\/p>\n<p>  All six STS-129 astronauts are safely strapped into their seats and are awaiting liftoff at 2:28 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n<p>  The Closeout Crew will pressurize the crew cabin, check for leaks and then finish up remaining work inside the pad&#8217;s White Room before leaving the area.<\/p>\n<p>  The weather forecast remains &quot;go&quot; at the launch site and the Transoceanic Abort Landing, or TAL, sites where the shuttle could land in the unlikely event of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>  NASA&#8217;s recovery ships, Liberty Star and Freedom Star are stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, ready to gather up the solid rocket boosters after they fall into the sea.<\/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-5916","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\/5916","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=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/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=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}