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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LOS ANGELES — A massive space shuttle fuel tank squeezed through the ...

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 ...

The ET-94, a massive, 66,000 pound fuel tank which has been dubbed the “last flight-qualified space shuttle external tank in existence,” creeped through the normally congested streets of L.A ...

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) ...

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 ...