By DIRECT2TheMoon on 17 June 2009 at 2:00AM
After lightning delayed Shuttle Endeavour's fueling by almost 3 hours, the old gaseous hydrogen leak issue surfaced again. Mission managers declared a scrub at 1:55 EDT this morning. NASA reports:
Image above: Rays of light frame space shuttle Endeavour as the launch countdown continues at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image credit/NASA TV
Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 second launch attempt was cancelled early Wednesday, June 17 due to a liquid hydrogen leak associated with the ground umbilical carrier panel. It's the same location where a similar leak scrubbed Endeavour's first launch attempt on June 13.
Endeavour's next launch attempt is targeted for July 11 at 7:39 p.m. EDT.
Image above: At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is bathed in light at Launch Pad 39A. Image credit: NASA TV
STS-127 Additional Resources
› Mission Press Kit (6.3 Mb PDF)
› Mission Summary (484KB PDF)
› Meet the STS-127 Crew
› Flow Valve Fact Sheet (447 Kb PDF)
Preflight pics are up at CBC, JSC, and Sentinel. Launch blog at NASA. Pics and video at KSC. More clips at Space Multimedia. Live video at SFN. Discussion at Nasaspaceflight. Check the links at right for play-by-play and NASA TV.
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