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The external tank's orange color, which would become iconic of the Space Shuttle program, is the color of the spray-on foam insulation. The first two tanks, used for STS-1 and STS-2 , were painted white to protect the tanks from ultraviolet light during the extended time that the shuttle spent on the launch pad prior to launch. [ 7 ]
STS-2 was the last shuttle flight to have its external fuel tank (ET) painted white. In an effort to reduce the Shuttle's overall weight, STS-3 and all subsequent missions used an unpainted tank, saving approximately 272 kg (600 lb) of launch weight. [16] This lack of paint gave the ET a distinctive orange-brown color, which eventually became ...
The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) carried the propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters. The ET was 47 m (153.8 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, and contained separate tanks for liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank are expected to begin this month — the capstone to a historic journey to an ...
The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete. Set against the black backdrop of the night sky, a crane hoisted a white shrink-wrapped Endeavour 200 feet overhead before ...
NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be ...
STS-3 was the first shuttle launch with an unpainted external tank, and the only mission to land at the White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The orbiter was forced to land at White Sands due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base.
An external tank floats away from the Space Shuttle orbiter. 134 of these tanks were brought to orbital altitude and then released for re-entry (135 total orbital missions minus Challenger) The External Tank for STS-1 is released from the Space Shuttle.