{"id":90204,"date":"2011-04-14T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/02f5656a93ca8c5a03484a9f2508dafa"},"modified":"2011-04-14T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T12:37:31","slug":"launch-countdown-preps-begin-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=90204","title":{"rendered":"Launch Countdown Preps Begin Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A will check the STS-134 crew&#8217;s extravehicular mobility units, or spacewalking suits, which were installed into space shuttle Endeavour yesterday. In addition, launch countdown preparations begin today.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-134 crew is conducting contingency abort training and will tag up with the six station crew members to discuss plans for the upcoming and final flight of Endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>The Flight Readiness Review for Endeavour&#8217;s flight to the International Space Station will be held on Tuesday, April 19. NASA managers will announce the official launch date during a briefing at the conclusion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour is targeted to lift off at 3:47 p.m. EDT on April 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Pad 39A will check the STS-134 crew&#8217;s extravehicular mobility units, or spacewalking suits, which were installed into space shuttle Endeavour yesterday. In addition, launch countdown preparations begin today.<\/p>\n<p>At NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-134 crew is conducting contingency abort training and will tag up with the six station crew members to discuss plans for the upcoming and final flight of Endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>The Flight Readiness Review for Endeavour&#8217;s flight to the International Space Station will be held on Tuesday, April 19. NASA managers will announce the official launch date during a briefing at the conclusion of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour is targeted to lift off at 3:47 p.m. EDT on April 29.<\/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-90204","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\/90204","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=90204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90204\/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=90204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}