As NASA's space shuttle program draws to a close, production of the shuttle's external fuel tanks has ceased. Lockheed Martin had built NASA fuel tanks since 1973.

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. Skip to main content.

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 ...

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 ...

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 external tank was painted white for the first two space shuttle launches (left). From the third launch, it was left unpainted (right). (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) ...

Massive space shuttle fuel cell completes 16-mile trip across L.A. 01:41 LOS ANGELES-- A huge fuel tank from the Space Shuttle program completed an unusual odyssey in Los Angeles Saturday night ...

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NEW ORLEANS -- The next space shuttle fuel tank - External Tank-132 - is in the middle of a six-day, 900-mile sea voyage from New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The tank is the first ...

NASA has found several small cracks in the space shuttle's external fuel tank, the space agency said Thursday. Discovery was scheduled to take off Nov. 5 on its final mission to the International ...

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. IE 11 is not supported.