The SOFIA flying observatory arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand on July 18, 2013, for its first Southern Hemisphere deployment.
Astronomers aboard the SOFIA flying observatory look at data gathered by the GREAT spectrometer on a flight from Christchurch, New…
Jurgen Stutzki, deputy principal investigator for the GREAT spectrometer, was aboard the SOFIA flying observatory for a flight to study…
NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory is framed by a rainbow following a shower as it sits on a ramp at Christchurch…
On the rain-soaked ramp at its deployment base at Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand. NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory is ready…
The cockpit of NASA’s SOFIA 747SP is awash with instrumentation lights during one of nine Southern Hemisphere flights to study…
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., relaxes following the successful…
The flight crew of the SOFIA 747SP keeps the aircraft on course during a July 2013 mission in the Southern…
SOFIA flight crew Manny Antimisiaris, pilot-in-command (left), Jim Less, co-pilot (middle), and Marty Trout, flight engineer (right) track the aircraft’s…
The aurora australis, or southern lights, was observed by the flight crew and science team members aboard the SOFIA flying…
