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Landing is done at one of three sites across the US: the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base, or Edwards Air Force Base. To return to Kennedy Space Center, the X-37 is placed into a payload canister and loaded into a Boeing C-17 cargo plane. Once at Kennedy, the X-37 is unloaded and towed to the OPF ...
The Boeing Dreamlifter, officially the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner. With a volume of 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 m 3 ) [ 1 ] it can hold three times that of a 747-400F freighter. [ 2 ]
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters.One (N905NA) is a 747-100 model, while the other (N911NA) is a short-range 747-100SR.
A series of mission scrubs delayed Starliner's launch for about a month until June 5, when it was finally able to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop an Atlas V rocket.
Boeing has a $4.3 billion contract with NASA as part of its Commercial Crew Program. Starliner first did an unmanned test flight in 2019, but a software glitch prevented it from making it to the ...
Boeing, with its commercial airplane operations rocked by a series of crises involving its 737 MAX jetliners, needs a win in space for its Starliner venture, already several years behind schedule ...
Tennessee native and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore is headed to space once more for the launch of Boeing's Starliner. Watch the launch here. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...
The aircraft was built as a 747-400F freighter at the Boeing Everett Factory with manufacturer's serial number 30201 and fuselage line number 1238. The aircraft took its first flight on 6 January 2000. [citation needed] It was shortly thereafter delivered to Boeing Defense, Space & Security in Wichita, Kansas for initial conversion for military ...