The prototype space shuttle Enterprise, which never flew in space, met up Friday (April 20) with the NASA aircraft that will carry it to New York on Monday.

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft reproduces the modified Boeing 747 jetliner and NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise as they appeared when they arrived at the Paris Air Show in 1983.

May 13, 2012: Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted on transport vehicle, is backed into a temporary hangar after being demated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Enterprise will be placed on ...

In 1977, the prototype space shuttle, Enterprise, was flown to altitudes of 10,000 to 26,000 feet by this aircraft carrier and then released to verify orbiter aerodynamics and handling ...

The Lego Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is exclusive to Lego Insiders until May 18, but signing up is entirely free.

The $229.99 Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will be available for purchase starting on May 15th for Lego Insiders, and May 18th for everyone else.

Mammoet lifts space shuttle replica Independence atop the original Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) NASA 905, a Boeing 747.

Built in 1970, the aircraft was Boeing's 86th 747 and was an American Airlines jetliner until NASA purchased it in 1974. It was the sole shuttle transporter until NASA added a second SCA in 1990.

Enterprise was last mated with the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft more than a quarter-century ago, on Nov. 18, 1985, when the shuttle arrived at Dulles from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for ...

On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise and the Boeing 747 that carried it on test flights and a goodwill tour.