The cavernous expanse of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., now houses NASA's DC-8 science laboratory and SOFIA…
The high-tech German-built infrared telescope and its associated lower flexible telescope cavity door are rotated upward to their maximum 58-degree…
Technicians carefully maneuver a spreader bar into place before removing the telescope aperture assembly from NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory Boeing…
NASA's new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory, during open house at NASA…
NASA's SOFIA observatory with a NASA F/A-18 trailing in chase soars over California City in the desert north of Edwards…
NASA's newly painted Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP is pushed back from L-3 Communications' Integrated Systems hangar in Waco,…
With the sliding door that covers the SOFIA's telescope behind him open, USRA's SOFIA science missions operations director Erick Young…
News media representatives are briefed on capabilities of the SOFIA's German-built infrared telescope embedded in the flying observatory's rear fuselage…
With a NASA F/A-18 flying safety chase nearby, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – flies a…
With a protective sun cover over its primary mirror, the high-tech German-built infrared telescope is nested in its framework inside…
