NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was airborne for almost two hours during its first check flight at Waco,…
NASA’s SOFIA aircraft project manager John Carter is interviewed by Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall and Jason Boswell for a planned…
Sandwiched between the deep blue of the high-altitude sky and the Southern California mountains, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
NASA’s modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA airborne observatory taxis along the runway at Waco, Texas after completing its first checkout flight…
With the door to the cavity housing its 2.5-meter infrared telescope wide open, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)…
The SOFIA airborne observatory’s 2.5-meter infrared telescope peers out from its cavity in the SOFIA rear fuselage during nighttime line…
Wispy clouds are illuminated by a bright quarter moon behind the tail of NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory during telescope characterization…
Scientists and telescope operators focus on data readouts set up inside NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory during telescope characterization tracking tests.
Erik Lindbergh unveils a plaque commemorating his grandfather to dedicate the 747 Clipper Lindbergh, a NASA airborne infrared observatory known…
SOFIA’s primary mirror is placed in the telescope cavity for reinstallation prior to telescope adjustments preparing SOFIA for first science.
