{"id":901098,"date":"2026-04-24T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/nasas-777-aircraft-returns-home-with-science-flights-on-the-horizon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:13:14","slug":"nasas-777-aircraft-returns-home-with-science-flights-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/nasas-777-aircraft-returns-home-with-science-flights-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s 777 Aircraft Returns Home with Science Flights on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature NASA\u2019s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency\u2019s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from a giant passenger plane into the agency\u2019s next-generation airborne science laboratory. After a check flight and a three-hour transit from Waco, the aircraft returned to NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/langley\/nasas-777-aircraft-returns-home-with-science-flights-on-the-horizon\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Charles G. Hatfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature NASA\u2019s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency\u2019s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from a giant passenger plane into the agency\u2019s next-generation airborne science laboratory. After a check flight and a three-hour transit from Waco, the aircraft returned to NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton&#8230;Read MoreCharles G. Hatfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26788,4374,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-901098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aircraft","8":"category-nasas","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}