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 ...

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 ...

ET-94, the “sister” to the space shuttle Columbia’s external tank, was built at Michoud and completed in 2001, but it was never used. The Columbia burned up on reentry in 2003, killing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

NASA is relying on an overhaul of the space shuttle's towering external fuel tank to eliminate dangerous debris that triggered the fatal breakup of Columbia nearly two years ago, space agency ...

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 ...

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.