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Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747
Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier ...
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NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off May 15 as Lego Icons model
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 ...
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Blast Off with LEGO's NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise & Boeing 747 Set
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 ...
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45 years ago, the first Space Shuttle made history without going to space
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 ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
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 ...
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The very last 747 jumbo jet just rolled off Boeing’s assembly line
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 ...
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NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to lift off May 15 as Lego Icons model - MSN
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 ...