A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international goodwill tour. The Lego ...

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The X-37B space plane, recently returned from a 430+ day mission, is preparing for its eighth launch. Scheduled for no earlier than August 21st from Kennedy Space Center, the mission will focus on ...

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is set to launch its eighth mission from Kennedy Space Center. The mission, designated USSF-36, will focus on testing laser communications and a new navigation ...

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program’s ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...