A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international goodwill tour. The Lego ...

Although the Space Shuttle was capable of rocket-powered rides to space, it required the help of a Boeing 747 for earthbound ...

Virgin Galactic has introduced a 747 to its fleet of vehicles as part of a technical update on its LauncherOne small satellite launch service. The 747-400 commercial jet aircraft, previously operated ...

Space shuttle Enterprise, riding on the back of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, lands at JFK International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) April 27, 2012 ...

Executives from The Boeing Company and Space Center Houston, the official visitor’s center for NASA-Johnson Space Center, recently announced plans to permanently relocate NASA 905, a retired Boeing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back ...