NASA successfully transported the Space Shuttle from Florida to Virginia yesterday on its way to the Smithsonian. But how you get a 150,000-pound space vehicle off a ...

It may sound impossible to some, but once upon a time, airplanes regularly took off and landed with 83-ton spaceships on their backs. Someone has wisely decided to put one in a museum. On Saturday, ...

Maybe, just maybe, the disappointment many felt when Houston did not receive one of the retired Space Shuttles will be replaced in two years by excitement at the opening of a new unique display at ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) --The 747 jumbo jet that once ferried NASA's space shuttles back and forth from Houston to Florida in-between and after missions once again has a little extra weigh on its back.

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 designed ...

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HOUSTON – A new tribute to NASA’s space shuttle era featuring the agency’s original Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA) with the high fidelity orbiter mockup Independence anchored on top will ...

HOUSTON — The countdown is on to the launch of a new eight-story-tall attraction dedicated to the history of NASA's space shuttle and the jumbo jet that was used to ferry the fleet of winged ...

NASA may have ended the Space Shuttle program last year, but the shuttle Discovery will get one more flight — on April 17th, Discovery will be mounted atop NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) ...