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Why Did NASA Choose A Boeing 747 To Piggyback The Space Shuttle?

When NASA needed a taxi service for its roughly 100-ton space shuttles, it couldn't exactly call an Uber. The agency needed a plane powerful enough for the job. It dug around, and the two candidates ...
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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 designed ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
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Virginia senators push back on Space Shuttle Discovery move to Texas

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Virginia senators say moving ...