To enable its transport, Boeing's Aircraft on Ground (AOG) team partially disassembled the jet, ... NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off May 15 as Lego Icons model.

A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off ... took the airplane and completely gutted it of all the interior appointments that one would expect to have in a business transportation airplane." ...

This modified NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft brought the space shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday. The inside is mostly empty except for some ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz got language into President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that creates a path for getting a space shuttle to Houston.

Before this year, NASA last ferried a shuttle back to Florida in 2002. Since the early 1980s, NASA has carried out 51 shuttle-transport missions, including a trip across the Atlantic to take the ...

NASA may relocate Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston under a new $85M law, sparking debate over the orbiter’s rightful home.

"No less than $5 million" is earmarked for the transportation of the winged orbiter ... "Independence," mounted atop NASA''s original modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, "NASA 905." A 2011 ...

The Boeing 747 and NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise formed an iconic partnership in aerospace history. NASA modified a Boeing 747 into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which was specially ...

NASA 911 took its final voyage this week on a short flight from NASA's Dryden flight research Center to Dryden's Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, California. The final flight lasted only ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has selected NetJets Inc., of Woodbridge, N.J., for commercial aviation transportation services in support of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate. The contractor will ...

NASA said the space center would help Sierra Nevada "define ... "It returns home in a cargo plane," Sirangelo told me. The mini-shuttle is compact enough to fit within a C-5 transport plane, ...