{"id":17898,"date":"2010-05-14T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/atlantis-lifts-off-for-the-last-time-at-1820-ut-today-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:52:33","slug":"atlantis-lifts-off-for-the-last-time-at-1820-ut-today-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/atlantis-lifts-off-for-the-last-time-at-1820-ut-today-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis lifts off for the last time at 18:20 UT today | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[UPDATE: Atlantis launch went smooth as silk. The Orbiter is doing its thing, and will proceed to the space station.]<\/em><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/267a4_sts132-patch.jpg\" alt=\"sts132-patch\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15157\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">The Space Shuttle <em>Atlantis<\/em> is scheduled for liftoff today at 18:20 UT (14:20 Eastern US time) for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts132\/index.html\">its final mission to the International Space Station<\/a>. <del datetime=\"2010-05-14T16:30:32+00:00\">After it lands 12 days later<\/del>Sometime later it will be officially retired from the fleet [statement updated, see first comment below.]<\/p><p>I will be covering the launch from Twitter using <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BANews\">my BANews feed<\/a>. There are lots of others covering the event as well, including my friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/krelnik\">Tim Farley<\/a>. You can also watch it all live on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\">NASA TV<\/a>. As I write this, there&rsquo;s a 70% chance of liftoff (high clouds may mess things up).<\/p><p>Atlantis is the first of the Orbiters to retire. The last scheduled flight of a Shuttle, <em>Endeavour<\/em>&rsquo;s, is scheduled tentatively for mid-November. <em>Discovery<\/em>&rsquo;s last mission launches on September 16.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PWnh02SwtEMFaqdXs_JWffBitLk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/267a4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/PWnh02SwtEMFaqdXs_JWffBitLk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e80cb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e80cb_EEgv81YnE0s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e80cb_D2rRINexq80\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE: Atlantis launch went smooth as silk. The Orbiter is doing its thing, and will proceed to the space station.]The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for liftoff today at 18:20 UT (14:20 Eastern US time) for its final mission to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/atlantis-lifts-off-for-the-last-time-at-1820-ut-today-bad-astronomy.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-17898","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\/17898"}],"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=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}