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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEGO has launched its latest Icon set – the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360) – featuring the modified Boeing 747 and NASA’s prototype orbiter Enterprise. Priced at $229.99, it captures a pivotal ...

A Boeing 747 that functions as GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed sat on the runway towering over NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov.

NEW YORK — Space shuttle Enterprise took to the air Friday morning (April 27) for the first time in more than a quarter-century, but the two-hour flight is also to be its last. Its final destination: ...