NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

In the 1970s, aircraft designer John M. Conroy proposed building the world’s largest aircraft by merging two B-52 bombers ...

Officials at KSTP-TV in St. Paul have announced they will not show the movie “Born Innocent” because of the extreme viewer reaction when the movie was shown last spring. KROC-TV will air the movie at ...

The An-225 is (by some measures) the largest aircraft to fly and was one of the last major projects of the Soviet Union.

Space Shuttle Enterprise, piggy back on a NASA 747 Jumbo Jet, flies over Manchester Airport at 11 o'clock, sweeping in from ...

Good morning from Incheon International Airport as we head back to London on a Korean Air Boeing 747-8 aircraft.

The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for potential lobbying ...