{"id":92539,"date":"2011-04-26T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/7abc851cf21988b6bf4d0b35669b70bc"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:50:38","slug":"countdown-to-launch-begins-today-at-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=92539","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Launch Begins Today at Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countdown preparations for space shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s launch on Friday at 3:47 p.m. EDT are in process throughout NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center today. <\/p>\n<p>Technicians at Launch Pad 39A will close Endeavour&#8217;s payload bay doors today and workers at Kennedy&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) prepare for the STS-134 crew&#8217;s arrival this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Teams in the Launch Control Center&#8217;s Firing 4 will officially begin the countdown at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour&#8217;s six astronauts are expected to arrive at the SLF at approximately 12:15 p.m. in T-38 training jets. The arrival will be shown live on NASA TV (www.nasa.gov\/ntv).<\/p>\n<p>This morning, a pre-countdown status briefing also will be held live on NASA TV at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countdown preparations for space shuttle Endeavour&#8217;s launch on Friday at 3:47 p.m. EDT are in process throughout NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center today. <\/p>\n<p>Technicians at Launch Pad 39A will close Endeavour&#8217;s payload bay doors today and workers at Kennedy&#8217;s Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) prepare for the STS-134 crew&#8217;s arrival this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Teams in the Launch Control Center&#8217;s Firing 4 will officially begin the countdown at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour&#8217;s six astronauts are expected to arrive at the SLF at approximately 12:15 p.m. in T-38 training jets. The arrival will be shown live on NASA TV (www.nasa.gov\/ntv).<\/p>\n<p>This morning, a pre-countdown status briefing also will be held live on NASA TV at 10 a.m.<\/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-92539","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\/92539","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=92539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92539\/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=92539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}