External Tank ET-131 Headed to Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

(NASA) – Space shuttle external tank ET-131 rolls out at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 15 to begin its four-to-five-day sea journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. ET-131 will help launch space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-127, which will fly later this year.

Space shuttle external tank ET-131 loaded onto an enclosed barge. Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

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