NASA’s highly modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA observatory banks low over the Texas countryside as it heads for landing at Waco…
After a brief visit to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field near San Jose, Calif., NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for…
NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory makes a low pass over NASA Ames Research Center prior to landing at Moffett Field for…
An F/A-18 mission support aircraft shadows NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a functional check flight Dec. 9,…
An F/A-18 mission support aircraft shadows NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a functional check flight Dec. 9,…
Ground crewmen shove the more than two-ton SOFIA primary mirror assembly in its transport crate into a C-17’s cavernous cargo…
The main mirror for NASA’s new airborne eye on the universe is now ready for installation after being transformed from…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP lands at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., following a test flight…
SOFIA’s primary mirror assembly rests in its transportation cradle prior to reinstallation in NASA’s airborne laboratory on Oct. 8, 2008.
