"We have scrubbed [the Discovery space shuttle launch] for the evening, officially at 5:52 p.m. Eastern," said launch commentator Allard Beutel. "The last half an hour or so, a problem cropped up with a fill-and-drain valve in the bottom part of the shuttle, the aft part of the shuttle, related to the liquid hydrogen. This particular valve ... gave indications it did not close when it was commanded to." And, so was the word from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. A rescheduled launch time and date have yet to be announced. Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Launch Scub Two for Discvery at the Cape
"We have scrubbed [the Discovery space shuttle launch] for the evening, officially at 5:52 p.m. Eastern," said launch commentator Allard Beutel. "The last half an hour or so, a problem cropped up with a fill-and-drain valve in the bottom part of the shuttle, the aft part of the shuttle, related to the liquid hydrogen. This particular valve ... gave indications it did not close when it was commanded to." And, so was the word from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. A rescheduled launch time and date have yet to be announced.
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