London: It might look like a giant whale floating in the sky, but this super-size plane is Nasa’s answer to shipping spacecraft components around the world. Dubbed Super Guppy, the aircraft can swallow other planes whole and has played a vital role in missions including Gemini and Skylab.

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The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy was first created in 1962 as a successor to the aptly-named Pregnant Guppy cargo aircraft.