Space history Canal bound

NASA, the US space agency is shipping  parts of a space shuttle through the Panama  Canal. disclosed by ABC News US, it is the last external fuel tank designed for the  agency.

The gigantic piece, equivalent to a 15-story building, will be traveling  from New Orleans to Los Angeles.

It  is a piece designed for Endeavour that made  25 trips to outer space between 1992 and 2011.

The exact date on which the tank will pass through the  Canal has not been discloseded but it left  New Orleans on Thursday March 3  and is expected to arrive in Los Angeles on  May 21.