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    The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters. One (N905NA) is...
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    included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977, atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking...
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    flown back to the KSC atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a specially modified Boeing 747 designed to carry the shuttle above it. The first orbiter...
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    Space Shuttle for landing until July 2011. It was also used for takeoffs and landings for NASA training jets such as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and for...
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    Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferry flights generally originated at Edwards Air Force Base in California or on one occasion White Sands Space Harbor in New...
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    contains the world's only Space Shuttle replica, where it stands mounted on one of the two original shuttle carrier aircraft. Independence Plaza is the only...
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    Mother ship (category Aircraft by design configuration)
    transport an aircraft or spacecraft on a ferry flight. Notable examples include: A pair of modified Boeing 747s known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, were used...
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    Husband, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February of that year. The first recorded landing of aircraft in Amarillo occurred on 27 April...
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  • United Airlines Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, modified Boeing 747 airliners used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters US Airways Shuttle, the brand name for...
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    retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place from March to July 2011. Discovery was the first of the three active Space Shuttles to be retired, completing...
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