Today in 2012: The Space Shuttle Discovery was mated to the top of NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) in the mate/demate device at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SCA would soon fly Discovery to Washington Dulles International Airport for transfer to the Museum and display at our Udvar-Hazy Center.

MOJAVE, CA – April 13, 2019 – Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by Paul G. Allen, today successfully completed the first flight of the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, the Stratolaunch. With a dual fuselage design and wingspan greater than the length of an American football field, the Stratolaunch aircraft took flight at 0658 PDT from the Mojave Air & Space Port. Achieving a maximum speed of 189 miles per hour, the plane flew for 2.5 hours over the Mojave Desert at altitudes up to 17,000 feet. As […]