It wasn’t all that long ago when owning a car was a real hands-on experience. Carburetors, points and condensers, spark plugs that only lasted a few thousand miles, single-weight oil and ...

Dear Tom and Ray: You recently answered a question about whether it's harmful to let your gas tank run down to empty. You said it's not harmful to the car, and it won't cause any damage. Eric Peters, ...

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, ...

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 ...

I read the question in your Telegraph column (from ND in Lincolnshire) about a Mitsubishi Sigma fuel tank that's leaking. You advised finding a plastic tank or a racing fuel tank - we actually ...

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 ...

Aftermonths of unprecedented repairs, the ding-ridden fuel tank of NASA's space shuttleAtlantis is patched up and primed for a planned June 8 launch, top agencyofficials said Friday. "I'm ...

Moving toward a liftoff of the first mission since the 2003 Columbia accident, NASA chauffeured the shuttle Discovery back to its Florida launching pad Wednesday with a safer fuel tank. The 10-hour ...