The rotating service structure (RSS) on NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A is fully open and moved away from space shuttle Endeavour. The RSS began moving at 11:44 a.m. EDT, about 15 minutes ahead of schedule. The retraction was complete at 12:24 p.m. <\/p>\n
Final preparations continue for Endeavour’s 8:56 a.m. Monday liftoff. Cockpit switches will be configured this afternoon, while Commander Mark Kelly and his crew will begin their launch sleep schedule at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n
The shuttle’s electricity-producing fuel cells will be activated at 5:46 p.m. and managers will meet at 11 p.m. to give a "Go-No Go" to load the External Fuel Tank with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. <\/p>\n
Coverage of the fuel loading begins at 11:30 p.m. on NASA TV and at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. The tanking process is scheduled to begin at 11:36 p.m.<\/p>\n
At 12 a.m. Monday, Endeavour’s crew wakes up for launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The rotating service structure (RSS) on NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A is fully open and moved away from space shuttle Endeavour. The RSS began moving at 11:44 a.m. EDT, about 15 minutes ahead of schedule. The retraction was complete at 12:24 p.m. <\/p>\n
Final preparations continue for Endeavour’s 8:56 a.m. Monday liftoff. Cockpit switches will be configured this afternoon, while Commander Mark Kelly and his crew will begin their launch sleep schedule at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n
The shuttle’s electricity-producing fuel cells will be activated at 5:46 p.m. and managers will meet at 11 p.m. to give a "Go-No Go" to load the External Fuel Tank with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. <\/p>\n
Coverage of the fuel loading begins at 11:30 p.m. on NASA TV and at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. The tanking process is scheduled to begin at 11:36 p.m.<\/p>\n
At 12 a.m. Monday, Endeavour’s crew wakes up for launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80291","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\/80291","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96749,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80291\/revisions\/96749"}],"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=80291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}