Two large science aircraft, a DC-8 flying laboratory and the SOFIA 747SP, are based at NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility…
The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the moon as it…
The GOES-10 satellite captured this image sequence on Feb. 26, 1998, during a solar eclipse. The images show the path…
Astronaut Mike Fossum continues his duties during this the second of the STS-124 mission’s three scheduled spacewalks. During the seven-hour,…
Astronaut Ron Garan participated in the first of STS-124’s three planned spacewalks as construction and maintenance continue on the International…
Astronaut Mike Fossum used a digital camera to create this self-portrait during the STS-124 mission’s first scheduled spacewalk. During the…
The primary mirror of SOFIA’s telescope being coated in a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in Silicon Valley…
NASA’S SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP (front) and DC-8 flying laboratory (rear) are now housed at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility…
The cavernous expanse of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., now houses NASA’s DC-8 science laboratory and SOFIA…
Technicians carefully attached a spreader T-bar to the framework of SOFIA’s primary mirror assembly prior to lifting it from the…
