NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) touches down at Moffett Field, Calif., for its first visit to NASA Ames…
Engineers and technicians prepare SOFIA's German-built primary mirror assembly for reinstallation into NASA's 747SP airborne observatory.
With the sliding door covering its 2.5-meter infrared telescope open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP rolls down…
Cornell University's Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, or FORCAST, is shown attached to the SOFIA telescope.
A NASA F/A-18 mission support aircraft flies close beside NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during a high-altitude test…
The high-tech German-built infrared telescope and its associated lower flexible telescope cavity door are rotated upward to their maximum 58-degree…
With the doors to the high-tech telescope nestled in its rear fuselage open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or…
With the doors to the high-tech telescope nestled in its rear fuselage open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or…
The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory includes (from left), flight engineer Marty Trout and pilots Bill Brockett and…
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, yanks the bunting to reveal the Clipper Lindbergh name on NASA's SOFIA…
