{"id":30443,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/scrubbed-again\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:12","slug":"scrubbed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/scrubbed-again.php","title":{"rendered":"Scrubbed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3943f_shuttle110510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><p>The source of the leak is the GUCP.  Credit: NASA<\/p><\/div><p>The shuttle mission is scrubbed again and this time until November 30th at the earliest.<\/p><p>The problem was a leak at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (GUCP) where the external tank and an external 17 inch pipe are attached. Essentially the 17 inch lines is a vent pipe to carry gaseous hydrogen safely away from the shuttle and burned off so as not to cause a problem.&nbsp; Hydrogen is VERY flammable.<\/p><p>The leak was termed &ldquo;significant&rdquo; by shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach. It is similar to leaks on STS-119 and 127 except the rate of leakage was higher.&nbsp; The problem was noted during the tanking process so now the tank needs to be drained and the vapors inside rendered inert before technicians can take a look, the process should take about 20 hours.<\/p><p>By Saturday they should have a pretty good handle on what is going on. The Mission Management Team will meet and decide if there might be a possibility of a Monday launch.&nbsp; I know, I know, I said the 30th, but something tells me that will still be the case.&nbsp; Besides for those of you that have followed my more recent predictions concerning the shuttle KNOW now that I&rsquo;ve said that, to be watching the news on Monday!<\/p><p>No matter, better safe than sorry I say.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The source of the leak is the GUCP. Credit: NASAThe shuttle mission is scrubbed again and this time until November 30th at the earliest.The problem was a leak at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (GUCP) where the external tank and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/scrubbed-again.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-30443","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\/30443"}],"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=30443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}