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Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier ...
The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft set recreates the prototype Enterprise and the modified Boeing 747 jetliner as they uniquely appeared when touching down at the Paris Air Show in May 1983 ...
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 ...
Enterprise’s first flight was not a free flight. It was bound to a Boeing 747 Shuttle Craft Aircraft (SCA); these were called captive tests. The idea with the shuttles was that upon deorbit ...
The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. That was all in the future as a Boeing 747 jet carried a Space Shuttle to Vandenberg (then an Air Force ...
After 53 years and more than 1,570 planes, the last Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line ... It was even big enough to be used to ferry the Space Shuttle from landing strips in California ...
Being on the 747, the airline said, was like being on a cruise ship. The space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lands at Los Angeles International Airport ...
“The 747 is a symbol for many ... appearing in James Bond films and even giving piggyback rides to the Space Shuttle. With the last passenger 747 having entered service more than five years ...
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.