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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space shuttle Endeavour's giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 newly revealed concept model suggests a major evolution could be in store for the United States’ F-22 Raptor jets. The design hints at how the powerful fighter jet with stealthy external fuel tanks ...

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 ...