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What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...
Summer doldrums again hit Midland’s labor market as the end of school sent non-contract school district employees into the ...
Investigators say runway lights that would have helped guide a small jet into a San Diego airport in foggy weather before it ...
The Conroy Virtus was one of the boldest aircraft concepts ever conceived—an enormous, reusable launch and transport platform built from two B-52 bombers. Designed to ferry and deploy the Space ...
NASA used Shuttle Carrier Aircraft mainly to transport space shuttles from landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where they could be prepped for ...
In homage to NASA’s space travel endeavors, LEGO’s latest aerospace release features the iconic Space Shuttle Enterprise and a Boeing 747 shuttle carrier. Details behind the incredible LEGO duo were ...
A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport. The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft recreates the 747 and Enterprise.
Much like NASA’s Space Shuttle ferried astronauts ... Each package includes transportation for two astronauts to ... accumulating over 9,000 flight hours across 41 different aircraft and ...
Under his leadership, Space Center Houston moved a shuttle replica and one of NASA’s Boeing 747 planes to its museum in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Spana said preparations were intense.
NASA’s tow vehicle of choice was pulled straight from the NASCAR paddock. Needing something that was wide enough to be stable at speeds of more than 100 mph, powerful enough to get there in the ...
The design features a large wingspan and a high lift-to-drag ratio, could allow the space shuttle to carry large payloads, a post on one of AVIC’s official social platforms said.