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 ...

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 ...

An external fuel tank manufactured to propel explorers and equipment into space was tilted toward the heavens via a different mechanism Friday morning but fell one step short of mission accomplished.

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 Friday ...

If you really think about it, the overall layout of a space station is pretty simple. It comprises, mostly, unassuming habitats that are most of the time cylinder-shaped structures capable of ...

The last two Space Shuttle External Tanks (ET’s) likely to be produced in history are entering their final closeout assembly operations at the NASA-owned Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Local authorities plan to protest a Navy pilot’s decision to jettison an F/A-18 Super Hornet’s empty fuel tank at sea before landing at Kadena Air Base over the weekend. The ...

The pod has reportedly undergone testing in the NTTR with the NT-43 aircraft used to validate low observable technology. Few months after the first sighting of the new stealth external fuel tanks for ...

IOSCO Co., Mich. (WTVG) - No injuries were reported but minor damage was done to cars in a parking lot after an F-16 with the 180th Fighter Wing had to dump two external fuel tanks. According to a ...

The external drop tanks that are so integral to an aircraft carrier’s power projection might not be an option for aircraft on the Navy’s newest flattop. A September report from the Navy Air Systems ...