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<\/font><\/em>L2, one of the only places in the world you can view underground information on space flight in its full documented form. To join L2, click the advert \u2014><\/font><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n**LIVE EVENT THREAD**<\/font><\/p>\n Rollout was set to begin at midday (Eastern) but was slightly delayed due to a motor overheating on the crawler transport, which carries the MLP (Mobile Launch Platorm) and Shuttle. Rollout officially begun at 12:45pm (Eastern).<\/p>\n \u2018Rollout of Space Shuttle Discovery signifies the last major processing milestone in preparation for our next mission, STS-121,\u2019 said Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale. <\/p>\n \u2018The entire team has worked tremendously hard to ensure we were prepared to move to the pad, and we are excited to continue moving toward a July launch.\u2019 <\/p>\n NASASPACEFLIGHT.COM RSS FEED \u2014> <\/p>\n Discovery will undergo an APU hot fire test over the weekend, as preparations begin for the launch window which opens in July.<\/font><\/p>\n The review will be key to deciding whether or not Discovery will press ahead with her July launch window.<\/p>\n Stay tuned for comphensive coverage on the key events surrounding the evaluation process ahead of launch.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/u><\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shuttle Discovery used most of Friday to roll out of the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) for the four mile trip down the Kennedy Space Center crawlerway, en route to her final destination, launch pad 39B for the July launch target of STS-121. NASASpaceflight.com provided coverage of the rollout as a live event, with images, video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/em><\/font>STS-121 Mission T-Shirt. Use discount code \u2018nasaspaceflight\u2019 when ordering from Countdown Creations & receive 5% off!<\/p>\n
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