This in-flight photo was taken during the first flight of the NASA and German Aerospace Center SOFIA airborne infrared observatory…
The SOFIA 747SP airborne observatory takes off from Waco, Texas, on its way to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in…
Composite infrared image of the central portion of galaxy M82, from SOFIA’s First Light flight, at wavelengths of 20 (blue),…
The lower flexible door (white) over the telescope cavity in the rear fuselage of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
NASA’s Boeing 747SP SOFIA airborne observatory soars over a bed of puffy clouds during its second checkout flight over the…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is silhouetted against the sky as it soars on its second check flight near…
NASA’s now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory, during an open house at Ames…
Cornell University mechanical engineer Chuck Henderson makes adjustments on the Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) during…
Technicians George Gull and Charlie Kaminski of USRA wheel the FORCAST infrared camera and its associated electronics into place in…
