{"id":79607,"date":"2011-02-21T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/ef4f929de344b2007a1555bebf85715c"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:58:15","slug":"launch-week-begins-at-kennedy-for-sts-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=79607","title":{"rendered":"Launch Week Begins at Kennedy for STS-133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A have completed pressurizing the tanks on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s Orbital Maneuvering and Main Propulsion Systems. Crews now are removing quick disconnects used during the process and reinstalling flight caps in preparation for launch on Thursday, Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>All six astronauts for Discovery&#8217;s final mission, STS-133, are at Kennedy for prelaunch preparations. STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey and Pilot Eric Boe will practice landing approaches at the Shuttle Landing Facility in shuttle training aircraft, a Gulfstream II jet modified to simulate a shuttle&#8217;s cockpit, motion and handling qualities<br \/>The countdown for Thursday&#8217;s 4:50 p.m. EST launch officially begins today at 3 p.m. A precountdown status briefing will air on NASA TV at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A have completed pressurizing the tanks on space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s Orbital Maneuvering and Main Propulsion Systems. Crews now are removing quick disconnects used during the process and reinstalling flight caps in preparation for launch on Thursday, Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>All six astronauts for Discovery&#8217;s final mission, STS-133, are at Kennedy for prelaunch preparations. STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey and Pilot Eric Boe will practice landing approaches at the Shuttle Landing Facility in shuttle training aircraft, a Gulfstream II jet modified to simulate a shuttle&#8217;s cockpit, motion and handling qualities<br \/>The countdown for Thursday&#8217;s 4:50 p.m. EST launch officially begins today at 3 p.m. A precountdown status briefing will air on NASA TV at 10 a.m.<\/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-79607","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\/79607","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=79607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607\/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=79607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}