CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery's ride to retirement, NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), has come a long way since it first took to the air in the 1970s as ...

The first Shuttle Carrier was utilized until November 1990, before its replacement aircraft was deployed. NASA's Second Shuttle Carrier Also Logged An Impressive History ...

NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off May 15 as Lego Icons model; ... NASA 911's first flight as an SCA was on Sept. 25, 1990; ...

NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will be moved from Ellington Field to ... The engineers also removed the jet's wings, marking the first time in history that the Boeing team separated a 747 from ...

Its first flight took place on February 18, 1977, mated with a modified Boeing 747 called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, and NASA tried releasing the shuttle to study its fall for the first time on ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — They say that everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly goes for Space Center Houston's newly announced space shuttle exhibit. Space Center Houston, which serves as the ...

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., holds a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT April 10 aboard NASA’s modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft. Current and former NASA and Air Force ...

Challenger was the second shuttle to reach space, which it did first in April 1983. ... The new orbiter sat atop a 747 carrier aircraft. ... NASA's space-shuttle program lasted from 1981 to 2011.

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 ...

The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over Rogers Dry Lakebed during the second of five free flights carried out ...