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 ...

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

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

Two weeks after "landing" on top of the aircraft carrier-turned-Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, NASA's prototype space shuttle Enterprise is now underneath the inflatable canopy ...

May 13, 2012: Space shuttle Enterprise hangs from a sling after being demated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in the Queens borough of New York.

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is part of a larger 2,417-piece set that includes a buildable replica of ...

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 ...

Now, Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) N905NA is the one being shuttled. On April 28, ... Space shuttle Enterprise flies over NYC 26 photos. The journey will take two nights, ...

Update for 4 p.m. EDT, April 20:The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has announced that Enterprise's flight to New York has been "postponed until further notice due to unfavorable weather forecast ...

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 ...