Both aircraft offer impressive capabilities.

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 ...

A combined effort between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the aircraft is called SOFIA (registration N747NA, callsign “NASA747”), which stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope. Let's say you've got a 747. A perfectly good, if slightly aging ...

A Boeing 747 that functions as GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed sat on the runway towering over NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov.

NASA builds cool rockets, but a lesser-known fact is that the organization also builds cool airplanes. One of the coolest projects it’s ever built, SOFIA (the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

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