SOFIA
AircraftNASA’s Unique SOFIA Boeing 747SP Flying Telescope Is Done
NASA announced Thursday that a rare modified Boeing 747SP—known as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), will be shut down this year, after years of inflight observations of the moon, stars, planets, and far away galaxies.
Thom Patterson
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