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Modified Boeing 777 will become NASA's largest flying science lab

A heavily modified Boeing 777-200ER formerly operated by Japan Air Lines will soon become NASA's largest flying science laboratory. The retired commercial jet arrived at NASA's Langley Research Center ...
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37 Years Later, NASA Retires Its Famous Flying Laboratory

Pour one out for NASA’s large flying laboratory, an old and hardworking DC-8 aircraft that the space and aeronautics agency just retired. The plane came into the world in 1969, the same year that NASA ...
Flying

NASA Teams Remember Flying Science Laboratory as It Heads for Retirement

NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory, the world's largest flying research lab, is retiring after 37 years and 158 global science missions. The highly modified aircraft conducted vital studies in ...
Popular Science

We still don’t know how animals evolved to fly

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Materials and Life Science Payloads, CubeSats Flying on Next Resupply Mission to International Space Station

A student-led genetics investigation, six small satellites called CubeSats, a technology demonstration, and life and materials science payloads are set to fly on SpaceX’s 28th Commercial Resupply ...