According to a news release from Cornyn's office, Space Shuttle Discovery is owned by the federal government. It is currently in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...

Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier ...

Elementary students will explore flight and engineering this summer at NASA’s Junior Test Pilot School, held at iconic ...

A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong ...

The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft set recreates the prototype Enterprise and the modified Boeing 747 jetliner as they uniquely appeared when touching down at the Paris Air Show in May 1983 ...

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'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 ...

Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport in 2012. The 747 was the "piggyback" mode of transportation for 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 space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands at Los Angeles International Airport, on Sept. 21, 2012. Matt Hedges/NASA/AFP via Getty Images.

The Queen of the Skies also became NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The 747 was also important for Washington state’s economic development, said Boeing historian Michael Lombardi in an ...