While the 747 was a commercial success, it has served important roles in aviation beyond passenger operations. The aircraft was famously operated by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space ...

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 ...

The Boeing 747, known as the "Queen ... It transported NASA’s space shuttles and was the base for the U.S. president’s Air Force One aircraft, making the 747 a symbol of American innovation.

The last Boeing 747, the "Queen of the Skies," has left the building. The production line ends on number 1,574. ... Specially modified models carried NASA’s space shuttle on their backs, ...

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, ...

Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, a transport for NASA’s space shuttles ...

FILE - A Boeing 747 takes off from Seattle in January 1970. Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, when it delivers the jumbo jet to cargo carrier Atlas Air.

The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am's New York-London route, shortly before the oil crisis of 1973 and during a recession that forced Boeing to cut its employment numbers from 100,800 ...

Boeing began working with NASA to test using chevrons, or scalloped edges, on turbofan engines, mainly for noise reduction.

The last 747 jumbo jet rolled out of the factory this week after 53 years in production. How did the Boeing plane revolutionize airlines and what does its retirement mean for the industry today?