{"id":30099,"date":"2010-10-31T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/discovery%e2%80%99s-finale\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:21:55","slug":"discovery%e2%80%99s-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery%e2%80%99s-finale.php","title":{"rendered":"Discovery\u2019s Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0303b_discovery102910.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0303b_discovery102910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"370\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Discovery on March 11, 2009.  Click for larger.  Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalis.<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Unless things politically change and there is no reason to believe they will.&nbsp; The shuttle Discovery will be making its last trip to space on Tuesday. This is a little bit of a delay from the original schedule.&nbsp; Right now the launch is scheduled for November 2nd (Tuesday) at 16:17 EDT (that&rsquo;s 4:17 pm EDT).<\/p><p>There are a few issues namely helium and nitrogen leaks in the right hand Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pod before launch, but the delay should enable the problems to be fixed.<\/p><p>Here are some of the interesting statistics from<a title=\"Retrospective on Discovery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/flyout\/discovery.html\" target=\"_blank\"> a very nice retrospective on the NASA site<\/a> &mdash; Discovery:<\/p><ul><li>Took four years to build<\/li><li>Has been to space 38 times<\/li><li>Was the first spacecraft to retrieve and return a satellite to Earth<\/li><li>Has carried 246 crew members, more than any other space vehicle<\/li><li>Has spent 352 days in orbit<\/li><li>Has circled the Earth 5,623 times<\/li><li>And traveled 143 million miles.<\/li><\/ul><p><a title=\"Get wallpaper versions of the above image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1301.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br>Get wallpaper sized versions of the image at the top of the post at NASA<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery on March 11, 2009. Click for larger. Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalis.Unless things politically change and there is no reason to believe they will.&nbsp; The shuttle Discovery will be making its last trip to space on Tuesday. This is a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery%e2%80%99s-finale.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-30099","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\/30099"}],"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=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}