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 ...

The ET-94, a massive, 66,000 pound fuel tank which has been dubbed the “last flight-qualified space shuttle external tank in existence,” creeped through the normally congested streets of L.A ...

The external tank for next space shuttle flight is in the middle of a 900-mile, six-day sea voyage from New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center, in Florida.

The space shuttle external fuel tank known as ET-94 is moved from its barge to dry land at Marina del Rey, California, on May 18, 2016. (Image credit: Rod Pyle/Space.com) ...

The space shuttle program’s last flight-qualified external fuel tank in existence has taken the first steps in what will be a grand sea voyage to Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times ...

The external fuel tank slated to join the space shuttle Endeavour on display at the California Science Center arrived in Marina del Rey Wednesday morning. The 15-story tall tank, dubbed ET-94, will… ...

Following more than 18-months of redesign work, the next external tank that will fuel a NASA space shuttle as it is launched into orbit is about ready for delivery, NASA officials said today.

LOS ANGELES – ET is coming home. ET-94, a massive external fuel tank built for the space shuttle program but never used in flight, will finally take an epic journey — not in space, but through ...

Come May though, a giant, 15-story tall external fuel tank will arrive in Los Angeles destined for the Space Shuttle Endeavour pavilion at the California Sciene Center, according to the L.A. Times.

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 piggyba… ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank is undergoing the fueling process, with more than 530,000 gallons of liquid rocket fuel being pumped into the Marshall Space Flight Center-managed tank.

The external fuel tank is a non-reusable part of the space shuttle system. A new tank is built for each launch. In its heyday, the Michoud plant delivered up to 12 tanks per year to the National ...