NASA's now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory, during an open house at Ames…
Cornell University mechanical engineer Chuck Henderson makes adjustments on the Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) during…
Technicians George Gull and Charlie Kaminski of USRA wheel the FORCAST infrared camera and its associated electronics into place in…
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was airborne for almost two hours during its first check flight at Waco,…
NASA's SOFIA aircraft project manager John Carter is interviewed by Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall and Jason Boswell for a planned…
Sandwiched between the deep blue of the high-altitude sky and the Southern California mountains, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
NASA's modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA airborne observatory taxis along the runway at Waco, Texas after completing its first checkout flight…
With the door to the cavity housing its 2.5-meter infrared telescope wide open, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)…
Erik Lindbergh unveils a plaque commemorating his grandfather to dedicate the 747 Clipper Lindbergh, a NASA airborne infrared observatory known…
Scientists and telescope operators focus on data readouts set up inside NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory during telescope characterization tracking tests.
