{"id":60882,"date":"2010-11-05T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/69b149ffeb1007317cff80b236408583"},"modified":"2010-11-05T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:29:30","slug":"launch-scrubbed-due-to-hydrogen-leak-at-ground-umbilical-carrier-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=60882","title":{"rendered":"Launch Scrubbed Due to Hydrogen Leak at Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle managers have scrubbed Discovery&#8217;s launch attempt for today due to a hydrogen leak at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP (pronounced GUP). The next launch attempt would be no earlier than Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  During the process of filling the external tank, the hydrogen leak was detected at the GUCP, an attachment point between the external tank and a 17-inch pipe that carries gaseous hydrogen safely away from Discovery to the flare stack, where it is burned off.<\/p>\n<p>  Managers will meet to determine the next steps and NASA Television will air a news conference later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle managers have scrubbed Discovery&#8217;s launch attempt for today due to a hydrogen leak at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP (pronounced GUP). The next launch attempt would be no earlier than Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  During the process of filling the external tank, the hydrogen leak was detected at the GUCP, an attachment point between the external tank and a 17-inch pipe that carries gaseous hydrogen safely away from Discovery to the flare stack, where it is burned off.<\/p>\n<p>  Managers will meet to determine the next steps and NASA Television will air a news conference later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60897,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882\/revisions\/60897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}