NASA resumed shuttle flights after the 2003 Columbia accident in July 2005. Disposable fuel tanks. When space shuttle external tanks are filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant, ...

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 handkerchief-waving ...

At this point anything (and we mean anything) can incite people to transform into selfie-taking monsters. Case in point: the recent trek of a giant space shuttle fuel tank through the streets of ...

The foam that detached on liftoff and led to the space shuttle Columbia (search) disaster last year has been removed from redesigns of the fuel tanks that launch shuttles into space, NASA (search ...

Redesign of the external tank was considered to be a key and critical part of NASA's effort to return the shuttle to space, but is only one of a long list of recommendations from the Columbia ...

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 ...

A redesigned fuel tank for NASA's first post-Columbia launch emerged from a darkened barge into the morning sunlight Thursday, inspiring dozens of space shuttle workers who gathered to watch.

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 ...

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 ...

Space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames approximately 200,000 feet over Texas on ... which Tuesday confirmed the debris as a fuel tank that was part of the shuttle's electrical power system.

NASA approves a shuttle fuel tank redesign that will install heaters in place of some of the foam that detached on liftoff and led to the Columbia disaster last year. IE 11 is not supported.

ET-94 is the sister external tank for the space shuttle Columbia. It was built in 2001 and never used. On Tuesday, it is scheduled to set sail from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.