The nose landing gear of space shuttle Endeavour is lifted during operations to raise the shuttle for securing to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) on Sept. 14, 2012. The shuttle is inside the ...

The plane and shuttle will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The orbiter, known as OV-103, was hoisted Sunday onto the 747 that will deliver it to the Smithsonian ...

In this mission, the shuttle is rendezvousing with the Hubble Space Telescope to repair and update it. The first test flights were in 1981 followed by operational flights the next year. The ...

For the last time in space shuttle history, a NASA orbiter has been mounted to the top of a jumbo jet to be flown to its next destination. For shuttle Endeavour, now sitting piggybackatop the ...