CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA managers won't decide until April when to reschedule a space shuttle mission that was postponed after hail damaged the craft, officials said. Golfball-sized hail left ...

Fuel tanks don’t fail often, but when they do, repairs can be expensive and potentially dangerous. Damage can happen from collisions, water intrusion, poor manufacturing or even leaving a car unused ...

New York — Engineers continued to work feverishly to repair the hail-damaged fuel tank of NASA’s Atlantis shuttle in time for a mid-May launch, though space agency officials are still unsure whether a ...

NASA engineers have completed some repairs to the shuttle Atlantis’ hail-damaged external fuel tank at the agency’s Florida spaceport, where a possible replacement is due to arrive Friday, agency ...

NEW YORK — NASA engineers and mission managers are weighing their options on how best to fix thousands of hail dings in the foam-covered fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. William Gerstenmaier, ...