When space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Feb. 7, it will mark the first flight of an external tank manufactured using longitudinal friction stir ...

WASHINGTON — NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company paid tribute to the workforce who built the external tanks for the space shuttle fleet on Thursday at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in ...

NASA's last-remaining, built-for-flight space shuttle external tank finally took to the sky, albeit for only two brief hops above Los Angeles. In what was originally planned as an overnight move but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man takes a picture of the last shuttle fuel tank, ET-94, before it begins its journey along Los Angeles streets to the ...

NASA will ship its second redesigned Space Shuttle External Tank Saturday, March 5, from Michoud Assembly Facility, near New Orleans., marking the first step toward final launch preparations for the ...

Space shuttle Endeavour's giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday. The tank was hoisted by crane Friday ...

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The quarter-mile-long eastern New Orleans production plant that once bustled from end to end with workers assembling huge external fuel tanks for NASA's space shuttle is now eerily silent. Massive ...

The Space Shuttle will forever remain one of the most successful pieces of engineering ever designed for the exploration of places beyond the borders of our own planet. And it will do so despite ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a space shuttle fuel tank heading to a Los Angeles museum (all times local): 9:20 a.m. A gigantic space shuttle fuel tank is creeping through streets near Los Angeles ...

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At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank are expected to begin this month — the capstone to a historic journey to an ...