NASA Dryden DC-8 maintenance crew members inspect the aircraft prior to take-off.
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Mission: Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar 2004 (AirSAR)
NASA Dryden DC-8 maintenance crew members inspected the aircraft prior to take-off. L-R; Scott Silver, Paul Ristrim, and Mike Lakowski. The Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) 2004 Mesoamerica was a three-week expedition by an international team of scientists that used an all-weather imaging tool, called the AirSAR which was located onboard NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory.March 6, 2004
NASA Photo / Jim Ross