Space Shuttle External Tank Completes Sea Voyage, Arrives in Los Angeles

NASA's last existing external tank built to launch the space shuttle has made landfall in Los Angeles after a five-week ocean journey. The massive orange-brown tank, which left New Orleans atop a barge April 12, arrived in Marina del Rey, California Wednesday morning (May 18). "[The tank] has entered the breakwater of the marina!" the California Science Center stated on Twitter.