For this whole assembly operation, “we’re basically following the same process that Kennedy Space Center used,” Rudolph notes, adding that no one has put together a shuttle at a non-NASA ...

Leaving the launch pad and rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building overnight, the space shuttle Discovery will spend the holidays having the external tank X-rayed as engineers look into the ...

A retired NASA Space Shuttle is slowly coming together for an unprecedented display, with the massive tank that once helped power the rocket now standing tall alongside two solid boosters at the ...

Piece o’ cake Two large solid rocket motors are hauled through the streets of Los Angeles on Oct. 11 on the way to the California Science Center to join a display of the space shuttle Endeavour.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery completed one milestone and is nearing another as workers prepare the orbiter for a December launch to the International Space Station. On Tuesday night, driver… ...

Astronomy Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission to Hubble: Some Assembly Required News By Patrick Peterson published July 21, 2008 ...

Production of the space shuttle's external fuel tanks is winding down at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune Apr 4, 2010 4 min to read ...

Captain Butch Wilmore retires from NASA after flying Boeing Starliner's first crewed test mission and completing five ...

As the largest component of the Space Shuttle stack, ET-94 weighs 65,000 pounds (29,483 kilograms), and stands 154 feet (47 meters) tall with a diameter of 27.5 feet (8 meters).

This payload is light compared with the 32,000-pound (14,514 kg) Kibo module that shuttle Discovery took to the International Space Station in May. However, Atlantis must climb to an orbit of ...