In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans, workers at the nearby NASA Michoud Assembly Facility persevered through their own personal hardships to deliver a newly designed ...
NASA's last-remaining, built-for-flight space shuttle external tank finally took to the sky, albeit for only two brief hops above Los Angeles. In what was originally planned as an overnight move but ...
WASHINGTON – NASA has signed a $47.5 million contract modification with Lockheed Martin, New Orleans, for space shuttle external fuel tanks. The modification aligns and extends all activities ...
NASA has shipped its last space shuttle external propellant tank to California to join the retired orbiter Endeavour on display in Los Angeles. The plan is to mount the winged spaceship vertically on ...
The quarter-mile-long eastern New Orleans production plant that once bustled from end to end with workers assembling huge external fuel tanks for NASA's space shuttle is now eerily silent. Massive ...
Ogive shaped nose section of ET-138 at Michoud holds forward liquid oxygen tank on top of aft liquid hydrogen tank and connecting intertank – surrounded by scaffolding. ET-138 will fuel STS 134 flight ...
A massive orange fuel tank was slowly moved about 1,000 feet through Exposition Park on Wednesday, Jan. 10, being prepared to be lifted into vertical position as part of the eventual upright, ...