{"id":83469,"date":"2011-03-09T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/6030d2eb599aca585891db06c7daa0d1"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:58:56","slug":"deorbit-burn-complete-discovery-headed-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=83469","title":{"rendered":"Deorbit Burn Complete, Discovery Headed to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery has completed the deorbit burn, setting it on a course to return to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Entry interface, the point at which the shuttle begins entering the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, will occur at 11:25 a.m. EST. Peak heating begins at 11:34 a.m., the first roll reversal to slow the spacecraft will take place at 11:38 a.m., and peak heating should end about 11:44 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery will head to the northeast across the west coast of Florida near Sarasota and trigger dual sonic booms as it slows to subsonic speeds at about 11:53 a.m. Commander Steve Lindsey will align Discovery with Kennedy&#8217;s northwest to southeast runway 15 and touch down at 11:57:26 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Discovery has completed the deorbit burn, setting it on a course to return to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Entry interface, the point at which the shuttle begins entering the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, will occur at 11:25 a.m. EST. Peak heating begins at 11:34 a.m., the first roll reversal to slow the spacecraft will take place at 11:38 a.m., and peak heating should end about 11:44 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery will head to the northeast across the west coast of Florida near Sarasota and trigger dual sonic booms as it slows to subsonic speeds at about 11:53 a.m. Commander Steve Lindsey will align Discovery with Kennedy&#8217;s northwest to southeast runway 15 and touch down at 11:57:26 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-83469","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\/83469","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=83469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83469\/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=83469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}