Image: STS 133 GUCP Quick Disconnect removal

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Description: On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker begins to remove the ground umbilical carrier plate's (GUCP) 7-inch quick disconnect. A hydrogen gas leak at that location on the external fuel tank during tanking for space shuttle 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 vented hydrogen is burned off. Discovery's next launch attempt is no earlier than Nov. 30 at 4:02 a.m. EST
Title: STS 133 GUCP Quick Disconnect removal
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=49538
Author: NASA/Troy Cryder
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