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Pat Duggins
Pat Duggins
Senior News Analyst
pduggins@wmfe.org


 

June 22, 2009-- NASA thinks building a replacement seal will fix the fuel leak that prompted two disappointment launch scrubs for Space Shuttle Endeavour. Once the fuel pipe that connects to the Shuttle's external tank on the launch pad is disassembled and repaired, a tanking test is planned.

A half million gallons of supercold liquid hydrogen and oxygen will be pumped into the tank to see if anything leaks out.