More than four decades later, it remains the deadliest accident in aviation history, killing 583 people.
On average, at any given time, there are about 3 million people flying in the sky; every 2 seconds an Airbus A320 aircraft takes off; Only 5% of the world's population ever sat
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has just transferred ownership of the space shuttle
Boeing has said it can stop producing the 747 iconic aircraft model, a wide-body aircraft that dominates the sky for more than four decades, has been a specialty of many heads of
The Space Shuttle Discovery is loaded onto the back of the Boeing 747 and leaves California for the space center in Florida.
Joe Sutter - head of development engineering team
The world's largest aircraft with a wingspan of up to 117m and equipped with six Boeing 747 engines will fly test in early 2017.
Scientists at NASA recently introduced a new spectrophotometer called Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES).