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 ...

Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with a Space Shuttle perched on top. It is effectively two sets in ...

NASA’s original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747-100 known by its tail number, NASA 905 (N905NA), first flew passengers as an American Airlines jetliner in the early 1970s.

They'll see a sight that Jeff Moultrie first saw decades ago. He's a NASA pilot who will be flying the Boeing 747. NASA has routinely used this shuttle carrier to get its spaceships back to ...

Space Center Houston is letting you watch live online as workers reassemble the 747 space shuttle carrier that they acquired from NASA for its planned space shuttle Independence exhibit. The NASA ...

NASA may relocate Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston under a new $85M law, sparking debate over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...