Post-1945, Douglas Aircraft Corporation acknowledged an opportunity to meet the high demand for airline aircraft by recognizing the future of commercial flying in jet-powered aircraft following the De ...

Acquired by NASA in 1985, the DC-8 was used on 158 science campaigns. Credit: Matt Hartman NASA’s long-serving McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 research aircraft flew for the final time on May 15 when it was ...

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 ...

POCATELLO — A piece of NASA history parted ways with the sky this week and will instead remain forever parked in Pocatello. The world’s first and largest flying science laboratory, the historic NASA ...

A NASA DC-8 aircraft will carry a team of scientists to observe the Stardust sample capsule as it enters Earth’s atmosphere and flies to a landing in the Utah desert at 2 a.m. PST on Jan.15, 2006. The ...

The event will showcase aircraft, crews and organizations that provide aid during global emergencies. Highlights include the last U.S.-registered DC-8, owned by Samaritan’s Purse and a field hospital ...

Commercial Aviation Postcards [Williamson], NASM.2025.0042, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Scope and Contents "Eastern's Super DC-8." Postcard; right side view of Eastern Air ...