When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...

Upon very first glance, Trump's luxury Boeing 747-8 and the newly upgraded Boeing 777 purchased by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) appear to belong to entirely different ...

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 ...

Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back to Kennedy Space Center throughout the Space Shuttle Program, one of ...

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American ...