Space Shuttle Spectacle: Watching a Huge Fuel Tank Come Ashore

MARINA DEL REY, California — The gentle maritime rhythm of Fisherman's Village in Los Angeles was punctuated by the sounds of torqueing metal and snapping timber Wednesday (May 18), as NASA's last  space shuttle external fuel tank was rolled off a seagoing barge. The tank will soon begin the final leg of a 5,000-mile (8,000 kilometers) journey from New Orleans to its  destination at the California Science Center (CSC) near downtown Los Angeles. The slow offload was uneventfu