Last NASA Space Shuttle External Tank Set for LA to L.A. Sea Voyage

A last-of-its-kind, very large artifact from NASA's space shuttle program is set to leave New Orleans this week on an almost 40-day ocean voyage to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. The remaining external tank built to fuel a space shuttle's launch into Earth orbit was rolled down a one-mile-long (1.6 km) road and onto a barge on Sunday (April 10), two days ahead of its scheduled departure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. "It is a bittersweet day, [but] at the same time we lik