Final Shuttle Tank Gets New Orleans Send-Off

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The last external fuel tank scheduled to fly on a space shuttle mission was rolled away July 8 from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in preparation for its 900-mile sea journey to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tank, designated ET-138, was completed by Lockheed Martin workers on June 28. NASA and Lockheed Martin held a ceremony to pay tribute to the Michoud employees who built and delivered 134 ETs to the Space Shuttle Program over a span of 37 years. Once at Kennedy, the tank will be used to send shuttle Endeavour into space on its STS-134 mission targeted for November first.

Published 2010-07-09 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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