New images have revealed that the United States is testing a modified configuration of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A space shuttle's orange external fuel tank is surrounded by scaffolding and fencing. Just days after it was taken off exhibit and ...

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 ...

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 assembly of an upright, launch-ready display of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion today, as crews lifted a massive external fuel ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The engineers who built the massive external fuel tank that will power the shuttle Discovery into orbit this spring used sophisticated X-ray detectors developed by UF researchers ...

NASA engineers have found another crack the fourth so far in the metal skin of the external fuel tank attached to the space shuttle Discovery. The new crack is similar to three others spotted on ...