NASA will announce discoveries about the Lunar Moon that the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747, uncovered at a media conference next week Monday. NASA is ...

NASA builds cool rockets, but a lesser-known fact is that the organization also builds cool airplanes. One of the coolest projects it’s ever built, SOFIA (the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

NASA's prototype shuttle orbiter Enterprise, which had been on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum since 2003, flew its final mission to the Big Apple. On Mothers Day, NASA ...

At a glance, it’s apparent that something isn’t right about the Boeing 747 NASA flew over the Mojave desert last month. The unusual airplane isn’t some crazy new aerodynamic experiment, it’s part of ...

Over its five-decade lifespan, the Boeing 747 has served many roles: passenger jet, cargo carrier, presidential transport (doomsday and non-doomsday editions), aerial laser cannon, even big spoon to ...

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, ...

HOUSTON — They say that everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly goes for Space Center Houston's newly announced space shuttle exhibit. Space Center Houston, which serves as the official ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. 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 ...

As hundreds of eager onlookers watched, a crane on Thursday lifted the space shuttle replica Independence nearly three stories high to its resting place atop a Boeing 747 at Space Center Houston, ...

Moving a 747? It's complicated. If you happen to live southeast of Houston in Clear Lake, you probably already know that NASA is moving the enormous Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from Ellington Field to ...

Inside a Hamburg maintenance hangar belonging to Lufthansa Technik (LHT), a 40-year-old Boeing 747 Special Performance is undergoing a heavy check to help keep the heavily modified, NASA-owned ...