{"id":80397,"date":"2011-02-24T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/b8eeb74323bc58f16019c9935533adb6"},"modified":"2011-02-24T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:40:57","slug":"external-tank-fueling-began-at-725-a-m-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=80397","title":{"rendered":"External Tank Fueling Began at 7:25 a.m. EST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanking operations began on time at 7:25 a.m. EST, and slow filling of liquid hydrogen is under way. The three-hour fueling process will provide the fuel and oxidizer Discovery&#8217;s three main engines require for the 8 1\/2-minute trip to orbit. Launch is scheduled for 4:50 p.m. It takes about three hours to fill the tank, then the final inspection team will survey the shuttle stack on the launch pad for ice buildup or other abnormalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanking operations began on time at 7:25 a.m. EST, and slow filling of liquid hydrogen is under way. The three-hour fueling process will provide the fuel and oxidizer Discovery&#8217;s three main engines require for the 8 1\/2-minute trip to orbit. Launch is scheduled for 4:50 p.m. It takes about three hours to fill the tank, then the final inspection team will survey the shuttle stack on the launch pad for ice buildup or other abnormalities.<\/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-80397","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\/80397","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=80397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80397\/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=80397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}