When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett ... decades under the call sign Air Force One. It carried the space shuttle. And it was the star of any number of Hollywood disaster ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a new bill on Thursday called the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which ...

A notable exception is the space shuttle main engine ... in which the orbiter was mounted on the back of a Boeing 747, taken aloft, and released, Rocketdyne issued a brochure based on my ...

But the Boeing 747 has found a large range of other uses, from carrying the Space Shuttle, to the specialized Boeing ...

The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It ...