T he Boeing 747 continues to be recognized as one of the most iconic commercial jets of all time. Originally introduced in ...

The Boeing 747 isn't the first aircraft to be used as an aerial telescope platform as the program dates back to 1965. NASA's Boeing 747SP flying observatory nicknamed "SOFIA." ...

Now data from NASA’s “flying telescope” is explaining how Pluto’s haze is formed and how the distant Sun affects it from 3.7 billion miles away. NASA's SOFIA "flying telescope" on a Boeing ...

NASA used a 747 to transport space shuttles back to Florida whenever they landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. Boeing has more than 500 suppliers in the U.S. supporting the 747 ...

NASA 911 Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Hauler Flies For The Last Time By Shane McGlaun Updated: Feb. 14, 2012 10:57 am EST I'm still more than a little sad that NASA retired the space shuttle fleet.

Answer: NASA and Boeing have some very smart aeronautical engineers. They calculated that the shuttle could ride safely and securely. They had attachment points built into the 747 to handle the ...

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 ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has recently begun sending back the first color images of Pluto and Charon, and they are spectacular. But prior to the probe making its close approach to Pluto on ...

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 ...

NASA modified a Boeing 747 into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which was specially designed to transport space shuttles on its back. The Enterprise was NASA's first space shuttle orbiter, ...