NASA's Super Guppy aircraft landed Tuesday at Ellington Field in Houston with a piece of NASA history that will soon get a new life. The plane's massive nose swung open to reveal a space shuttle ...

NASA's single Super Guppy is based at Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center, and the space agency has no plans to retire or replace the plane, stating that it offers “fast, economical ...

Astronaut Greg C. Johnson, together with NASA pilot Dick Clark, left Ellington Field in Houston on board the Super Guppy, a wide-bodied turboprop aircraft previously used to deliver the room-size ...

The 24-foot-long crew compartment of the space shuttle full-fuselage trainer, positioned inside a special cradle for travel, is loaded onto a NASA Super Guppy aircraft at Ellington Field near the ...

NASA’s Super Guppy Transport carries NASA registration number N941NA and is based at Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center. The latest piece of equipment to hitch a ride on a Super Guppy ...

The plane is based at Ellington Airport in Houston, near NASA's Johnson Space Center. [See more photos of NASA's Super Guppy swallowing jets] The first Guppy aircraft, called the Pregnant Guppy ...

Seattle-born astronaut Greg Johnson talks with Gov. Chris Gregoire after piloting the Super Guppy to Boeing Field on Saturday. After buzzing the Seattle skyline, the Super Guppy touched down at ...

The arrival of the Super Guppy kicks off a week of events as part of the museum’s ShuttleFest celebration. The event this morning is open to the public, and details are available on the museum ...

“He pitched the idea to NASA, to convince them that they had a need for an aircraft like this,” says John Bakalyar, program manager for the Super Guppy at NASA. “When he showed a concept of ...

NASA’s bulbous Super Guppy cargo plane broke through the clouds north of Boeing Field at noon Saturday, to the cheers of more than 1,000 gathered at the Museum of Flight. The plane flew a ...