NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory lifts off the runway at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., on its first flight…
A NASA technician directs loading of the crated SOFIA primary mirror assembly into a C-17 for shipment to NASA Ames…
Ground crewmen shove the more than two-ton SOFIA primary mirror assembly in its transport crate into a C-17’s cavernous cargo…
A ground crewman signals the flight crew of NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory to stop as other crewmen head to their…
SOFIA 747 being towed into Hangar 703 at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA. Photo courtesy John Torres.
A ground crewman signals the flight crew of NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory to stop as other crewmen head to their…
Members of the SOFIA crew disembark from the aircraft at its new home inside of Hangar 703 at the Dryden…
This view of space shuttle Discovery’s tail section was taken on flight day 3 by the Expedition 17 crew aboard…
During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The…
Above Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery emerges from behind a growing cloud of smoke…