Orlando Sentinel photographer Joe Burbank caught an amazing photo of the final flight over the Magic Kingdom’s Space Mountain as the sun was rising, while then staff photographer Red Huberr, now ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo jet’s size, strength, and availability during the 1970s. This unique ...

Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back to Kennedy Space Center throughout the Space Shuttle Program, one of ...

For the last time in space shuttle history, a NASA orbiter has been mounted to the top of a jumbo jet to be flown to its next destination. For shuttle Endeavour, now sitting piggybackatop the space ...

Millions looked to the sky as Endeavour made its way across California for its historic last trip over some of the state's most iconic landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, state Capitol, Getty ...

Before the space shuttle could orbit in space, it had to prove that it could land on Earth. Twenty-five years ago, on August 12, 1977, the first free flight by the prototype space shuttle orbiter ...

HOUSTON -- It was a liftoff of a different kind early Thursday as engineers and workers placed the shuttle replica Independence atop its new home at Space Center Houston. The center welcomed the ...

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 ...