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 ...

A space shuttle's orange external fuel tank is surrounded by scaffolding and fencing. Just days after it was taken off exhibit and as its external tank is scheduled for its brief return to flight, ...

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.

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 ...

EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The assembly of an upright display of the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion Saturday, as crews ...

When NASA’s space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., May 31, it was lifted from the launch pad with the help of a “new” external fuel tank, ET-128, which featured ...

EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An ambitious effort to display the retired space shuttle Endeavour in an upright configuration at the California Science Center began its next major phase ...

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 ...