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.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial ...

When is a plane not a plane? When it's a telescope, of course. NASA has recently launched SOFIA -- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy -- which lives onboard a modified Boeing 747.

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'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 ...