External Tank-138 (ET-138)

NASA and Lockheed Martin Honor Final Shuttle External Tank

For 37 years, the space shuttle’s External Tank has fueled our nation to innovation and scientific discovery once unimaginable. On Thursday, July 8, NASA and Lockheed Martin celebrated the dedicated External Tank workforce as the last External Tank scheduled to fly on a space shuttle mission rolls out of the assembly building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Following remarks from NASA and Lockheed Martin leadership, as well as State officials, the final External Tank, designated ET-138, got a proper send off. As it rolled on a wheeled transporter one mile to the Michoud barge dock, the tank was accompanied by the Storyville Stompers, a traditional area brass band, and hundreds of handkerchief-waving employees in typical New Orleans fashion and spirit.

ET-138 was completed on June 25 by Lockheed Martin workers in Michoud. The tank traveled a 900-mile sea journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will support shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 launch.

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Find more Information:

• NASA Television's daily Video File will include B-roll of the event. For streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
• Click here to read a transcript from a live chat session with Lockheed Martin’s Vice President of the External Tank Program Mark Bryant
• For more information about the STS-134 mission, visit: www.nasa.gov/shuttle

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