{"id":2189,"date":"2011-07-07T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2011-07-07T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:27:49","slug":"threatening_skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/07\/threatening_skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Threatening Skies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This somewhat ominous photo of Launch Pad 39A was taken earlier today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/images\/STS-135_atlantis_against_stormy_sky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"STS-135_atlantis_against_stormy_sky.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/STS-135_atlantis_against_stormy_sky-thumb-500x333-45.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>As I mentioned in the previous entry, these storm clouds have had the NASA powers-that-be a little nervous about whether to postpone the final launch tomorrow. Lightning is the big concern; it&#8217;s already struck twice in the vicinity of the pad complex, once on a water tower 515 feet away from the pad, and again on a nearby beach, but the engineering teams have since determined no shuttle or pad systems were damaged, and last I heard, the countdown was still running. <i>Atlantis <\/i>is set to go as scheduled tomorrow morning at 11:26 EDT. That&#8217;ll be 9:26 my time; I&#8217;ll still be on my train at that point, so I&#8217;ll miss seeing the launch live. I&#8217;m a little unhappy about that&#8230; I may have to adjust my routine so I can get in front of a TV or computer for the big event. I was watching the very first launch live 30 years ago; it seems only fitting that I do the same with the last one.<\/p>\n<p>Photo source: Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAKennedy\">official Facebook page<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This somewhat ominous photo of Launch Pad 39A was taken earlier today: As I mentioned in the previous entry, these storm clouds have had the NASA powers-that-be a little nervous about whether to postpone the final launch tomorrow. Lightning is the big concern; it&#8217;s already struck twice in the vicinity of the pad complex, once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}