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A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The historic launch...
A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The historic launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An airship from the British Broadcasting Corp., or BBC, flies over the processing facilities...
NASA and university scientists are studying thunderstorms for the second year in row as part of the Dynamics and...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An airship from the British Broadcasting Corp., or BBC, flies over Launch Complex 39 past...
Mike Cisewski, Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III Project manager at NASA’s Langley Research Center...
A composite image of the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the...
The Microwave Temperature Profiler, or MTP is a passive microwave radiometer, which measures the natural thermal...
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) hangs from a launch tower at U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range...
Arctic Ozone Expedition Stavanger Norway These clouds in the polar regions north of Stravanger, Norway are...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An airship from the British Broadcasting Corp., or BBC, flies over Launch Complex 39 past...
NASA's SOFIA 747SP bearing a German-built 2.5-meter infrared telescope in its rear fuselage taxis up to NASA...
The SOFIA flight crew, consisting of Co-pilot Gordon Fullerton; DFRC, Pilot Bill Brocket; DFRC, Test Conductor Marty...
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory lands at Edwards AFB after being flown from Waco, Texas to NASA Dryden for systems...
Image acquired September 12, 2010 The yearly depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica – more commonly...
Scientists onboard SOFIA watch data come in from Pluto’s atmosphere as SOFIA flies into the shadow the dwarf planet...
The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory includes (from left), flight engineer Marty Trout and pilots...
Astronomers smile while looking at data from SOFIA’s telescope.
Technicians introduce liquid nitrogen to an instrument linked to SOFIA’s telescope. Detection of infrared...
SOFIA’s 9-foot mirror is lowered into the cavity and attached to a structure sitting on a thin layer of oil for...
James De Buizer, Senior Scientist at SOFIA Science Center, conducting observations onboard SOFIA facing the...
echnicians lift SOFIA's primary mirror assembly above NASA's 747SP airborne astronomy aircraft just prior to...
A technician guides SOFIA's primary mirror assembly into the aircraft's telescope cavity completing the mirror...