Its first aircraft used for this purpose were four Aero Spacelines Super Guppy cargo planes, which were based on the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Interestingly, Boeing itself did not convert its ...

Following a March 25 flight home on the space agency’s Super Guppy cargo aircraft, this second Orion flight article was returned to the Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building ...

NASA retired its original Super Guppy in 1991, and the Pregnant Guppy was cut down for scrap; there were no replacement parts for these unique aircraft, and Aero Spacelines had long gone out of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Big rockets require a big mode of transportation, which is why NASA has the "Super Guppy." It's a massively large cargo plane designed to carry other planes ...