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The Planetary Society BlogBy Emily LakdawallaUpdate on MichoudSep. 26, 2005 | 13:15 PDT | 20:15 UTC
Just a brief update on a story I’ve been following...the Michoud Assembly Facility, which builds the external fuel tanks for the Shuttle, was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. NASA has now stated that recovery there is going faster than they had initially predicted, so much so that they’ve announced that they’re ready to ship two tanks back from Kennedy to Michoud by barge. External tank #120 will go first -- if I understand the release correctly, that’s the one that was used on Discovery, and shed foam, causing the re-grounding of the Shuttle fleet. The tank is supposed to arrive back at Michoud in "early October." Keep your eye on the story at http://www.nasa.gov/katrina.
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