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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T20:29:26.000Z",
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  "textContent": "NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency’s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from a giant passenger plane into the agency’s next-generation airborne science laboratory. After a check flight and a three-hour transit from Waco, the aircraft returned to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on April 22. Since January […]\n\nThe post NASA’s 777 Aircraft Returns Home with Science Flights on the Horizon appeared first on NASA Science.",
  "title": "NASA’s 777 Aircraft Returns Home with Science Flights on the Horizon"
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