With no fuel tanks (of large capacity) of its own, the plane-like spacecraft departed Earth strapped to a huge external tank (ET), used to hold the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer ...

This claim is true. During the first two space shuttle launches, STS-1 and STS-2, the external tank (ET), then referred to as the standard weight tank, was painted white to protect its insulating ...

This is the incredible moment NASA 's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was hoisted into place and paired with a huge external fuel tank and rocket boosters at a display at the Los Angeles science ...

The shuttle launch display will be the centerpiece of the 200,000- square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which will nearly double the Science Center's educational exhibition space.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ET-94 is 154 feet long, 27.5 feet in diameter and weighs about 65,000 pounds, according to the Science Center. It is also the last remaining flight-qualified external tank in existence.

The Shuttle brought several new ideas and approaches to the space exploration industry, but of interest to us today is its partial reusability. It launched with the power provided by a huge ...

A lightweight external space shuttle fuel tank, ET 94, was built at a cost of $75 million. This would be about $140 million in todays dollars after adjusting for inflation. The lightweight tank was ...

Museum officials hope to stand both the shuttle and its external fuel tank, named ET-94, side-by-side in a new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center building that has been designed but not yet fully ...