NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

A keel section of the future aircraft carrier Enterprise CVN-80 on Aug 26, 2022. USNI News Photo. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Fatima Medina-Galeno might be one of the few naval shipbuilders in the ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Commissioned in 1961, it ...

The second aircraft carrier named Enterprise was commissioned on Nov. 25, 1961. She was the first to be powered by nuclear reactors, which set the standard for all American carriers that would follow.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Years after it was decommissioned, the U.S. Navy has announced the final fate of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The former USS Enterprise (CVN 65) will ...

The Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft set recreates the prototype Enterprise and the modified Boeing 747 jetliner as they uniquely appeared when touching down at the Paris Air Show in May 1983 ...