The release comes 42 years (and a day) after the 747 and test spacecraft took off from southern California to begin the tour. On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit ...

The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

The Lego Shuttle Carrier Aircraft model isn’t the only cool space-themed Lego set up for grabs. Other sets based on aerospace vehicles are also available, such as the Lego Icons: NASA Space ...

This 2,417-piece kit recreates a modified Boeing 747, which was used to ferry NASA Space Shuttle orbiters from landing sites ...

The Boeing 747 and NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise formed an iconic partnership in aerospace history. NASA modified a Boeing 747 into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which was specially ...

Four years later, the shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first of 135 missions that it and five other orbiters would fly. NASA 905 (and later, another SCA ...