A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its ... kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise and the Boeing 747 that carried it on test flights and a goodwill ...

NASA's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted ... Los Angeles International Airport in 2012 atop a NASA Boeing 747 and then created a spectacle as it was inched through tight ...

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is part of a larger 2,417-piece set that includes a buildable replica of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week NASA is working on the problem of ... and capsules to get astronauts into space. The space shuttle could ride on the back of a 747 for transportation across the country.

the very real NASA space shuttle prototype ... It was bound to a Boeing 747 Shuttle Craft Aircraft (SCA); these were called captive tests. The idea with the shuttles was that upon deorbit ...

Lighter than a 747 on landing ... in its construction to make this all possible. Ever seen a space shuttle with jet engines? No? NASA The jet engines actually stuck around on the shuttle concept ...

17, 1976, NASA unveiled its first space shuttle to the public ... It was lifted 25,000 feet into the air by a Boeing 747 airplane and then was released. The shuttle glided safely back to Edwards ...