{"id":733254,"date":"2010-05-25T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=16350"},"modified":"2010-05-25T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:00:26","slug":"atlantis-set-to-land-wednesday-morning-at-0848-edt-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733254","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis set to land Wednesday morning at 08:48 EDT. | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/05\/atlantis_iss-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"atlantis_iss\" title=\"atlantis_iss\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16075\"\/>The Space Shuttle <em>Atlantis<\/em> is due to land &#8212; for the last time &#8212; at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning at 08:48 Eastern time (12:48 UT). If she gets waved off, the next landing opportunity is at 10:22 EDT (14:22 UT). If <em>that<\/em> doesn&#8217;t happen, it&#8217;ll be Thursday at 09:13 and 10:48 (and more chances on Friday if needed as well).<\/p>\n<p>This is it for <em>Atlantis<\/em>. It&#8217;ll be fixed up and kept active in case it&#8217;s needed for a rescue mission for <em>Discovery<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts133\/index.html\">in September<\/a>, but if not, that&#8217;s the last flight. You can watch the landing live on <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\">NASA TV<\/a>, follow NASA <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nasa\">on Twitter<\/a>, and get more info at <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">the NASA shuttle website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><em>Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L7WofdlSSC6SBd-ArkSgbVpmzhQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L7WofdlSSC6SBd-ArkSgbVpmzhQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L7WofdlSSC6SBd-ArkSgbVpmzhQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/L7WofdlSSC6SBd-ArkSgbVpmzhQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/tsiQss70Ufc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/gi3TvCbvSHw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to land &#8212; for the last time &#8212; at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning at 08:48 Eastern time (12:48 UT). If she gets waved off, the next landing opportunity is at 10:22 EDT (14:22 UT). If that doesn&#8217;t happen, it&#8217;ll be Thursday at 09:13 and 10:48 (and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34KG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}