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Shuttle Artifact Travels The St. Johns River

Phillip Whitley
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St. Augustine Record

Some unique cargo made its way down First Coast waterways today.

A giant, orange external fuel tank from NASA's space shuttle program passed through the area en route from Kennedy Space Center to Green Cove Springs. The fuel tank and other space shuttle artifacts will eventually make their way to the Wing of Dreams Aviation Museum in Keystone Heights. NASA has more about the trek on its website.

The Florida Times Union reported that the fuel tank was towed through the St. Augustine Bridge of Lions Friday Morning.

Kennedy Space Center tweeted that the tank was scheduled to be in downtown Jacksonville this evening.

If you have photos of the tank traveling through our area, send them to news@wjct.org and we'll share them here.

Karen found her home in public broadcasting after working for several years as a commercial television reporter. She joinedWJCTin 2005 as the host of 89.9 FM’s Morning Edition and has held many different roles at the station in both radio and television. She has written and produced documentaries includingBeluthahatchee: The Legacy of Stetson Kennedy and Jacksonville Beach: Against the Tide and directed the oral history project, Voices of the First Coast.