NEW YORK — NASA engineers and mission managers are weighing their options on how best to fix thousands of hail dings in the foam-covered fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. William Gerstenmaier, ...

This story was updated at 2:39 p.m. EDT. Space shuttle Atlantis' massive external tank was filled with super-cold liquid fuel today (June 15), just as it would on launch day, to test upgrades that ...

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A fuel sensor that has given NASA headaches in the past acted up Friday morning forcing a delay of space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff. NASA managers continued to discuss problems with one of four engine ...

The external fuel tank for the shuttle Atlantis – which would launch on a rescue mission if the next shuttle experienced a major mishap – suffered two problems of its own this week. While repairing a ...

The Lockheed Martin external tank for the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 mission is undergoing preliminary processing in the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building after arriving by barge June ...

NASA has admitted that Space Shuttle workers discovered water beads coming out of orbiter Atlantis’s external propellant tank (ET)-118’s intertank this week. The intertank is a riveted mid section of ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis’ massive external tank was filled with super-cold liquid fuel June 15 to test upgrades that were made to the tank in advance of its scheduled liftoff next month. The so-called ...