NASA’s Michoud Facility Works On Final Shuttle Tank
Credit: LOCKHEED MARTIN
Lockheed Martin workers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility expect to finish the last of 134 space shuttle external tanks by the end of June before shutting down the production line for the huge aluminum-lithium structures. They have already resettled the tank—designated ET-138—back in the...
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