{"id":80383,"date":"2011-02-24T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/ffb11b8a094c5223062278bf7df6e5f8"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:39:35","slug":"launch-day-dawns-on-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=80383","title":{"rendered":"Launch Day Dawns on Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery is shimmering in the xenon lights out at Launch Pad 39A this morning as the sun is just emerging over the horizon at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle and its six-astronaut crew are to lift off today at 4:50 p.m. EST on a mission to the International Space Station. This will be the last mission of Discovery, which has made 38 trips into space before, including the STS-31 mission in April 1990, to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. <\/p>\n<p>The rotating service structure, or RSS, was moved back to its launch position last night. Teams are not working any issues that would delay today&#8217;s liftoff. Fueling of Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank with more than 535,000 gallons of super cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen is expected to begin at about 7:25 a.m.  NASA TV coverage begins at 7:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery is shimmering in the xenon lights out at Launch Pad 39A this morning as the sun is just emerging over the horizon at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle and its six-astronaut crew are to lift off today at 4:50 p.m. EST on a mission to the International Space Station. This will be the last mission of Discovery, which has made 38 trips into space before, including the STS-31 mission in April 1990, to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. <\/p>\n<p>The rotating service structure, or RSS, was moved back to its launch position last night. Teams are not working any issues that would delay today&#8217;s liftoff. Fueling of Discovery&#8217;s external fuel tank with more than 535,000 gallons of super cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen is expected to begin at about 7:25 a.m.  NASA TV coverage begins at 7:15 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-80383","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\/80383","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=80383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80383\/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=80383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}