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 ...

The lone remaining external fuel tank from NASA's space shuttle program began a slow ride across Los Angeles early Saturday and arrived 18 hours later at the California Science Center, where it will ...

LOS ANGELES -- NASA's space shuttle fuel tank ET-94 has come home to the California Science Center, arriving after a slow journey through the city that was watched by thousands of cheering Angelenos.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive space shuttle fuel tank squeezed through the streets of Los Angeles and loomed over vehicles on a busy freeway Saturday to join the retired orbiter Endeavour on display at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dings on the spacecraft's external fuel tank. The launch, which ...

The state's worst drought since the 1950s has led to the recovery in East Texas of a large piece of debris from space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated over the region nearly a decade ago.

Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida began modifying 34 support beams, called stringers, on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank Tuesday. Some observers think the work lessens ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...