It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is part of a larger 2,417-piece set that includes a buildable replica of the ...

Discovery is the only shuttle still owned by the federal ... The Enterprise shuttle prototype, which took flight tests from a 747 but never went to space, was the team’s next move.

The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It flew its final flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport.

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. Tony Hertz Telegram-Tribune file That was all in the future as a Boeing 747 jet carried a Space Shuttle to ...

The space shuttle could ride on the back of a 747 for transportation across the ... moments after being released by the space shuttle Discovery. First mission: 30 August 1984 Last Mission: 24 ...

It was lifted 25,000 feet into the air by a Boeing 747 airplane and ... in 1988, space shuttle flights resumed with the successful launch of the Discovery.Tragedy struck the space shuttle program ...