NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

Data from NASA's flying observatory, nicknamed "SOFIA," was responsible for finding molecular water (H2O) on the moon. Housed inside the former Pan Am and United Airlines Boeing 747 is a far ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has recently begun sending back the first color images of Pluto and Charon, and they are spectacular. But prior to the probe making its close approach to Pluto on ...

NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft sits in front of GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed, a Boeing 747, at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is ...

A contrail formed by an airplane is seen in the sky over the NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.

NASA Ames co-managed SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), a106-inch, 17-ton infrared telescope mounted inside a 747 jumbo jet, to view the skies more clearly.

As announced earlier in 2022, with the end of this fiscal year, NASA retired, on September 30, 2022, its Boeing 747SP Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The aircraft ...

NASA awarded the aerospace company Lockheed Martin, which also makes U.S. fighter jets, a $247.5 million contract to build the X-59 craft, and as the images below show, the plane is in its final ...

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...