Workers prepare to remove the plate GUCP from space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank.
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare to remove the ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP) from space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank. A hydrogen gas leak at that location during tanking for Discovery's STS-133 mission to the International Space Station caused the launch attempt to be scrubbed Nov. 5. The GUCP will be examined to determine the cause of the hydrogen leak and then repaired. The GUCP is the overboard vent to the pad and the flame stack where the excess hydrogen is burned off.
For more information on STS-133, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
- Title: Workers prepare to remove the plate GUCP from space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank.
- Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
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