The external fuel tank for the space shuttle's last scheduled mission was carried from the Pegasus barge into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday, Sept ...

The fuel tank for the final space shuttle mission got a big sendoff Thursday as it heads from its New Orleans manufacturing site to NASA's Florida shuttle launch site.

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you’ve noticed that in older pictures of the once-budding Space Shuttle Program, the Shuttle’s giant external tank appears brilliant white instead of the rusty orange color we have ...

The space agency stopped painting its shuttles' fuel tank because the white paint added about 600 pounds of weight.

LOS ANGELES-- A huge fuel tank from the Space Shuttle program completed an unusual odyssey in Los Angeles Saturday night. Crews cut no corners in relocating a massive space shuttle fuel tank-- the ...

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 on display ...

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.

NASA has found several small cracks in the space shuttle's external fuel tank, the space agency said Thursday.

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.