{"id":60883,"date":"2010-11-05T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/714d8579f8249ee63715daea363880ad"},"modified":"2010-11-05T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:07:51","slug":"managers-monitor-leak-at-ground-umbilical-carrier-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=60883","title":{"rendered":"Managers Monitor Leak at Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the fueling process, a hydrogen leak was detected at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, 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 continue to assess the leak. Similar issues affected the launches of shuttle missions STS-119 and STS-127.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the fueling process, a hydrogen leak was detected at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, 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 continue to assess the leak. Similar issues affected the launches of shuttle missions STS-119 and STS-127.<\/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-60883","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\/60883","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=60883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883\/revisions"}],"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=60883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}