{"id":421379,"date":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-trump-luxury-boeing-747-nasa-newly-upgraded-777-common\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:00:19","slug":"advancements-what-does-trumps-luxury-boeing-747-nasas-newly-upgraded-777-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=421379","title":{"rendered":"Advancements: What Does Trump&#8217;s Luxury Boeing 747 &amp; NASA&#8217;s Newly Upgraded 777 Have In Common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon very first glance, Trump&#8217;s luxury <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 747-8 and the newly upgraded Boeing 777 purchased by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) appear to belong to entirely different operational worlds. One is a politically charged presidential transport project, while the other is a scientific flying laboratory. Nonetheless, the deeper story is that both aircraft show how the United States government is increasingly repurposing commercial widebody jets to solve urgent fleet-modernization problems. NASA&#8217;s former Japan Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has just returned to Langley after heavy structural work was completed in Waco, Texas, where L3Harris helped transform it into the agency&#8217;s next-generation airborne science platform. The aircraft is set to replace NASA&#8217;s retired DC-8 and support long-duration Earth science missions with major gains in payload, endurance, and onboard operator capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both aircraft offer impressive capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701,396,399,737,202,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force-one","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-777","category-nasa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421380,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379\/revisions\/421380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}