In many vintage trucks, the stock fuel tank was located behind the seat, inside the cab. While this was a very common practice for a very long time from most manufacturers, it never really made sense.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans, workers at the nearby NASA Michoud Assembly Facility persevered through their own personal hardships to deliver a newly designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space shuttle Endeavour's giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the ...

The quarter-mile-long eastern New Orleans production plant that once bustled from end to end with workers assembling huge external fuel tanks for NASA's space shuttle is now eerily silent. Massive ...

An external fuel tank manufactured to propel explorers and equipment into space was tilted toward the heavens via a different mechanism Friday morning but fell one step short of mission accomplished.

EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The assembly of an upright display of the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center was another step closer to completion Saturday, as crews ...

When NASA’s space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., May 31, it was lifted from the launch pad with the help of a “new” external fuel tank, ET-128, which featured ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin will hold a ceremony at 9 a.m. this morning at the Michoud Assembly facility in eastern New Orleans to commemorate the rollout of the final external fuel tank built for the ...

The external drop tanks that are so integral to an aircraft carrier’s power projection might not be an option for aircraft on the Navy’s newest flattop. A September report from the Navy Air Systems ...