{"id":79629,"date":"2011-02-21T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a2220749360f29f26a6015a2b05cd29f"},"modified":"2011-02-21T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:49:53","slug":"discovery-weather-look-good-for-thursday-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=79629","title":{"rendered":"Discovery, Weather Look Good for Thursday Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch team at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continues to set up space shuttle Discovery for its last flight into orbit, scheduled to begin with a liftoff Thursday at 4:50 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She still has a few more miles before she sleeps,&quot; said Jeff Spaulding, NASA test director. Discovery has flown more than any other shuttle, including two return-to-flight missions and the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Launch day weather is also shaping up nicely, with the current forecast calling for an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s been really nice weather for prelaunch processing and that&#8217;s going to continue,&quot; said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch team at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida continues to set up space shuttle Discovery for its last flight into orbit, scheduled to begin with a liftoff Thursday at 4:50 p.m. EST. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She still has a few more miles before she sleeps,&quot; said Jeff Spaulding, NASA test director. Discovery has flown more than any other shuttle, including two return-to-flight missions and the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Launch day weather is also shaping up nicely, with the current forecast calling for an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s been really nice weather for prelaunch processing and that&#8217;s going to continue,&quot; said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.<\/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-79629","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\/79629","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=79629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79629\/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=79629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}