{"id":15497,"date":"2010-04-20T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/discovery-to-land\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:58:41","slug":"discovery-to-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery-to-land.php","title":{"rendered":"Discovery to Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: Picture perfect landing, welcome home!<\/strong><\/p><p><strong> Deorbit burn complete. <\/strong> Discovery to land at Kennedy Space Center at 09:08 ET.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s all but a sure bet the landing will be today, the question is: <em>where<\/em> is it going to land?<\/p><p>The first Kennedy Space Center opportunity was waved off due to weather constraints.&nbsp; It sounds like the next orbit will probably see a deorbit burn and a return.&nbsp; This one is interesting because they can choose either Edwards (landing at 09:01 ET) or Kennedy (09:08 ET) with just a few changes in flight logistics.<\/p><p>The training aircraft are up taking air-data for landing at both locations.<\/p><p>As of 06:57 am it appears KSC is going to be the spot.&nbsp; Deorbit burn to occur at just after 8 am ET.<\/p><p>Below are the groundtracks for orbit 238 landing:<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b6de1_groundtrackKSC042010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b6de1_groundtrackKSC042010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Orbit 238 groundtrack.  Credit: NASA<\/p><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/daae3_groundtrackEAFB042010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/daae3_groundtrackEAFB042010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Orbit 238 groundtrack.  Credit: NASA<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Picture perfect landing, welcome home! Deorbit burn complete. Discovery to land at Kennedy Space Center at 09:08 ET.It&rsquo;s all but a sure bet the landing will be today, the question is: where is it going to land?The first Kennedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery-to-land.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}