{"id":18335,"date":"2011-07-08T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=18335"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:58:54","slug":"watch-the-space-shuttle-launch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-the-space-shuttle-launch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the space shuttle launch online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era for NASA &#8211; this weekend they will finally launch their <strong>final space shuttle mission Atlantis<\/strong> before the next generation of space craft come into service. Having made its maiden voyage in 1985, Atlantis will make made its last ever lift-off in the next few hours (weather permitting) after over 25 years of service. If you don&#8217;t want to miss history in the making, here are a few ways to follow the lift-off online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/\">NASA TV<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can watch every second of the action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/\"><strong>live on NASA TV<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>08:00 EDT<\/strong> and also stream it your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/nasatv_live_iphone.html\">iPhone<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/nasatv_live_android.html\">Android Phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18337\" title=\"NASA TV\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-109.jpg 509w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-109-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t watch it then follow it on twitter either with <strong>@NASA<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18343\" title=\"@NASA\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-110.jpg 508w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-110-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or <strong>@NASAKennedy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18344\" title=\"@NASAKennedy\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-111.jpg 514w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/07\/screen-capture-111-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/>Enjoy the launch and let&#8217;s hope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/usa\/Possible-Weather-Delays-Loom-for-Final-Space-Shuttle-Launch-125160319.html\">the weather doesn&#8217;t delay it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the end of an era for NASA &#8211; this weekend they will finally launch their final space shuttle mission Atlantis before the next generation of space craft come into service. Having made its maiden voyage in 1985, Atlantis will make made its last ever lift-off in the next few hours (weather permitting) after over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-the-space-shuttle-launch-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch the space shuttle launch online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-18335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334187,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions\/334187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=18335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}