Both aircraft offer impressive capabilities.

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 ...

A combined effort between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the aircraft is called SOFIA (registration N747NA, callsign “NASA747”), which stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

How do you go about moving one of the world's largest planes through city streets? It takes a thousand-foot convoy of self-propelled trailers, and a legion of police and utility crews to move light ...

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To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope. Let's say you've got a 747. A perfectly good, if slightly aging ...

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 ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com HOUSTON — They say that everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly goes for Space Center Houston's newly announced ...