We Touched the Super Guppy: NASA’s Whale-Shaped Cargo Plane Has a 25-Foot-Wide Internal Diameter, Swallowed Apollo Rocket Stages Whole, and Only One Still Flies

We Touched the Super Guppy: NASA’s Whale-Shaped Cargo Plane Has a 25-Foot-Wide Internal Diameter, Swallowed Apollo Rocket Stages Whole, and Only One Still Flies

United States Editor-in-Chief Harry J. Kazianis attended the SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo at Lakeland-Linder International Airport in Florida from April 14 to April 19, 2026, and photographed the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Turbine up close. The Super Guppy is NASA's unique oversized cargo aircraft with a 25-foot-wide internal fuselage diameter originally designed to transport Apollo program rocket stages, Gemini spacecraft components, Skylab modul…