WASHINGTON — NASA has signed a $39.5 million contract modification with Lockheed Martin Space Systems, New Orleans, to implement an external tank program employee retention plan. Incentives are being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This claim is true. During the first two space shuttle launches, STS-1 and STS-2, the external tank (ET), then referred to as the ...

When space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Feb. 7, it will mark the first flight of an external tank manufactured using longitudinal friction stir ...

A man takes a picture of the last shuttle fuel tank, ET-94, before it begins its journey along Los Angeles streets to the California Science Center in Exposition Park in 2016. (Los Angeles Times) At ...

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Just days after it was taken off exhibit and as its external tank is scheduled for its brief return to flight, NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour is heading under wraps. With the new year getting ...

I found your article “Ghost Flight” (AW&ST Aug. 4, p. 50) intriguing as it illustrates how NASA has never fully solved the issue of lost foam insulation from the external tank. A return to basics ...

In operation for 30 years, NASA's space shuttle was described by the space agency as "the world's first reusable spacecraft" and was "launched like a rocket, maneuvered in Earth orbit like a ...

At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank are expected to begin this month — the capstone to a historic journey to an ...