The newly coated telescope mirror assembly for SOFIA is unloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility prior to re-installation.
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The newly coated telescope mirror assembly for SOFIA is unloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility prior to re-installation.
NASA's familiar blue-and-white logo graces Hangar 703 at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., identifying it as a facility of the nation's aerospace agency.
NASA is developing the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - or SOFIA - as a world-class airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes and major Earth-based telescopes.
NASA and the University of North Dakota have teamed to create the National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NSERC) located at the University of North Dakota.
NASA is operating two Lockheed ER-2 Earth resources aircraft as flying laboratories in the Sub-Orbital Science Program under the agency's Science Mission Directorate.
The NASA Gulfstream III (G-III) is a business jet that has been structurally modified and instrumented by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to serve as a multi-role cooperative research platform for the earth science community and a variety of flight research customers.
View the latest photos from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility.
Video of SOFIA telescope team collecting baseline operational measurements in early March, 2008.
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SOFIA 747SP being towed to hangar 703 after arriving at the DAOF in Palmdale, Calif.