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, ...

NASAengineers have completed some repairs to the shuttle Atlantis' hail-damagedexternal fuel tank at the agency's Florida spaceport, where a possiblereplacement is due to arrive Friday, agency ...

The Final Inspection Team, or ice team, has completed its walkdown of Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following this afternoon’s tanking test. Preliminary reports indicate no ...

Aftermonths of unprecedented repairs, the ding-ridden fuel tank of NASA's space shuttleAtlantis is patched up and primed for a planned June 8 launch, top agencyofficials said Friday. "I'm ...

The STS-135 payload canister’s move to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expected to begin at 9 p.m. EDT tonight with the canister’s lift up the pad structure is set for ...

This story was updated at 2:39 p.m. EDT. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space shuttle Atlantis' massive external tank was filled ...

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 ...

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 ...