The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the large ...

Hence it being slapped on the back of a Boeing 747 instead, a feat Lego has now immortalised in brick-built form as an Icons set for NASA (and, we guess, Boeing) fans: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. So ...

There was a time, not long ago, when airplanes flew in the skies of the world with spaceships placed on their backs. For those of you who still remember those times, but also for those curious ...

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 ...