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**LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-116 Processing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-117 (STS-317) Processsing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n **Ride home through the fire and plasma of re-entry with Atlantis \u2013 Stunning 2hr, 355mb video**<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018A little before 9am this morning, the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center had to evacuate two of their three processing bays,\u2019 said NASA officials claim. <\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n The leak occurred in OPF-1, which is currently housing Atlantis and her preparations for STS-117 (LON-317) next year. The leak, detected by the daily safety checks, also affected OPF-2, which is where Endeavour is currently housed.<\/p>\n \u2018Each morning, a safety crew checks chemical levels in the rooms and they found unexpectedly high levels of monomethyl hydrazine which is one of the two components of the fuel used in the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) on the Shuttle,\u2019 added the NASA official.<\/p>\n How the leak occurred appears to have been during the transit of some of the hypergolic fuel, although no specifics of what processes were being carried out at the time of the leak were noted.<\/p>\n \u2018They use a quick-disconnect hose to carry the fuel between the bays and a cap somehow came off prior to the levels being tested this morning,\u2019 added NASA. \u2018There were no injuries and the fuel flow has been stopped.<\/p>\n \u2018Employees, if they\u2019re not back at work now, will be returning to work shortly.\u2019<\/font> **INFINITY: 10 minute STS-115 MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/font> Two bays at the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have been evacuated, following a leak of monomethyl hydrazine (MMH), this morning local time. Thankfully, no one was injured or harmed by the very dangerous hypergolic propellant \u2013 which is used to power the orbiter\u2019s OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) engines. **Up-to-the-second Shuttle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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