As NASA's space shuttle program draws closer to its end, the production plant responsible for building the space plane fleet's giant external fuel tanks is shutting down. Lockheed Martin had been ...

NEWORLEANS ? The huge external fuel tank for NASA's final space shuttle mission was prepared for delivery to its Florida launch site Thursday, accompanied by a brass band andhundreds of ...

The last flight-qualified space shuttle external fuel tank in existence is expected to arrive at Marina del Rey's Fisherman’s Village about May 18. The tank’s 16- to 18-hour journey along city ...

When the space shuttle Endeavour crawled through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science Center in 2012, it was missing something: the giant external fuel tank on which it rode ...

Maybe you've noticed that in older pictures of the once-budding Space ... the tanks' liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel cool after being filled prior to launch. After the first two Shuttle ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The next space shuttle fuel tank - External Tank-132 - is in the middle of a six-day, 900-mile sea voyage from New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The tank is the first ...

NASA has found several small cracks in the space shuttle's external fuel tank, the space agency said Thursday. Discovery was scheduled to take off Nov. 5 on its final mission to the International ...

NASA has identified two cracks in the space shuttle's external fuel tank that led to the delays in Discovery's launch earlier this month. Discovery was scheduled to take off Nov. 5 on its final ...

As cloudy weather and the threat of lightning clears from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, NASA managers have given approval to fill the 15-story external fuel tank, which has been delayed ...

Learn more. LOS ANGELES — A massive space shuttle fuel tank squeezed through the streets of Los Angeles and loomed over vehicles on a busy freeway Saturday to join the retired orbiter Endeavour ...

MARINA DEL REY (CBSLA.com) — A barge carrying a 66,000-pound external fuel tank designed for one-time use in launching a space shuttle arrived in Marina del Rey Wednesday. At 6:00 a.m., NASA's ...