Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the German-built primary mirror assembly into NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for In...
Steven Schmidt
Director
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Chuck Johnson
Deputy Director
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Craig Griffith
Facilities Manager
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Ralph Anton
Safety, Health & Environmental
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Sandy Meske
Business Operations Manager
Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Engineers and technicians from NASA, the German Space Agency and the Deutsches SOFIA Institut recently reinstalled the German-built primary mirror assembly into NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for In...
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 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.
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.
The Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, operated by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, is located in Palmdale, Calif., 70 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Basic directions and simple map to the DAOF from Los Angeles (LAX) and Ontario International (ONT) airports.
Layout and hangar specifications of Bldg 703 at the DAOF.
The DAOF Fabrication Shop is a first response manufacturing, modification, and repair center supporting NASA aircraft and related experimental hardware.
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.