{"id":78583,"date":"2011-02-16T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/72897516f0f43fd014c0bd049c29fb5d"},"modified":"2011-02-16T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T13:33:44","slug":"sts-133-launch-preps-move-ahead-atv-2-aims-to-launch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=78583","title":{"rendered":"STS-133 Launch Preps Move Ahead; ATV-2 Aims to Launch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the European Space Agency\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 launches as scheduled at 4:50 p.m. EST today, space shuttle Discovery\u2019s target launch date will not necessarily move from Feb. 24. NASA managers will discuss the options and decide Discovery\u2019s official launch date during Friday\u2019s STS-133 Flight Readiness Review.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A, teams continue preparations for next week&#8217;s launch attempt. At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center, STS-133 crew is conducting its final integrated ascent sim today in the motion base simulator and reviewing robotics procedures today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the European Space Agency\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 launches as scheduled at 4:50 p.m. EST today, space shuttle Discovery\u2019s target launch date will not necessarily move from Feb. 24. NASA managers will discuss the options and decide Discovery\u2019s official launch date during Friday\u2019s STS-133 Flight Readiness Review.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A, teams continue preparations for next week&#8217;s launch attempt. At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center, STS-133 crew is conducting its final integrated ascent sim today in the motion base simulator and reviewing robotics procedures today.<\/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-78583","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\/78583","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=78583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78634,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78583\/revisions\/78634"}],"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=78583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}