{"id":31658,"date":"2011-02-19T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/discovery%e2%80%99s-last-voyage-is-go-for-february-24-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-19T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T14:00:42","slug":"discovery%e2%80%99s-last-voyage-is-go-for-february-24-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery%e2%80%99s-last-voyage-is-go-for-february-24-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Discovery\u2019s last voyage is go for February 24 | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b1a52_atlantis_iss-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16075\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">The last scheduled launch of the Space Shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em> has been set for February 24 at 16:50 Eastern time. <\/p><p>You can keep up with the latest info and NASA&rsquo;s launch blog on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/shuttle\">their Shuttle website<\/a>. The launch will be live, as usual, on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\">NASA TV<\/a>. As it happens I&rsquo;ll be on a plane traveling to Florida to visit family at that time, so ironically I&rsquo;ll be headed toward the launch but won&rsquo;t be able to see it. The launch window is a very short ten minutes, so if they delay it at all maybe it&rsquo;ll be for a day and I can see it. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts133\/\">The mission<\/a> is to go to the International Space Station, as all the final flights have been. I just found out that if all goes as planned, <em>Discovery<\/em> will have spent a total of 363 days in space, just short of a solid Shuttle-year. That&rsquo;s pretty amazing. <\/p><p>This flight has been much-delayed due to external tank problems, but NASA says those have been fixed. It&rsquo;ll be carrying components of the ISS up to orbit, as well as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/10\/25\/nasas-last-flight-of-discovery\/\">Robonaut 2<\/a>, a ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RCItgA2yPmy4TnyyQgkxMtMcMiU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b1a52_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RCItgA2yPmy4TnyyQgkxMtMcMiU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b1a52_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\/b1a52_eAS_Xd_NRC4\" 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\/b1a52_gca0Qz6UsU8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last scheduled launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery has been set for February 24 at 16:50 Eastern time. You can keep up with the latest info and NASA&rsquo;s launch blog on their Shuttle website. The launch will be live, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery%e2%80%99s-last-voyage-is-go-for-february-24-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-31658","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\/31658"}],"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=31658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}