Three years later, Aero Spacelines followed up with the larger and more powerful Super Guppy, which featured a a 25-foot (7.6-meter) diameter cargo bay, and for the first time a hinged nose for ...

NASA's Super Guppy is an aircraft built specifically to ferry large cargo. The Idea for the Super Guppy was introduced in 1965 after the agency's creation of Aero Spaceline Industries' Pregnant ...

If you lived in Goleta in the late 1960s and early ’70s, you might remember seeing these almost comical looking aircraft flying around, but do you know ...

A Super Guppy with Aero Spacelines livery. NASA In 1967, Conroy expanded the Guppy family with the Mini version, which had a reduced cargo hold diameter of 18 feet.

It’s not often that a piece of technology can still leave you in awe 50+ years after its creation, but that exactly the kind of … ...

Before there was the Beluga XL transporter airplane, there was the Super Guppy, a bizarre-looking NASA airplane resembling a bloated fish that has earned a cult following among planespotters as it ...

NASA's Super Guppy Transport plane ferried a pair of retired supersonic jets to Texas last week. ... The planes were operated by Aero Spacelines until NASA purchased the aircraft in 1981.

The Super Guppy is a marvel of 1960s-era engineering, ... Only five Super Guppy aircraft were built by manufacturer Aero Spacelines, and of those five, only one remains in service today.

The Orion capsule was transported Tuesday aboard a 135-foot flatbed truck from Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport to NASA's Plum Brook Station.

The Orion Spacecraft will be offloaded from the wide cargo plane — NASA's Aero Spacelines Super Guppy — in a protective transportation covering and positioned on a 135-foot truck.

The race to reach the moon in the 1960’s created several logistical concerns for NASA. One of the most significant was the question of transport. After all, it was quite a task to get Apollo ...