NASA’s airborne telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has a leadership team that…
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SOFIA’s Deployment to New Zealand Cancelled, New Flights to Resume
The leadership of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, reached a decision that the observatory’s…
What is HEEET?
NASA’s Heat shield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology is a woven heatshield design made to efficiently…
Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy
Observations from SOFIA indicate that the magnetic field near our galaxy’s core is strong enough to…
NASA Discovers Two New Types of Bacterial Life Inside a Fungus on Earth
NASA has discovered two new categories of microbial life – inside a thriving fungus in an…
Ames Contributions to the COVID-19 Response
Using expertise from space biosciences to supercomputing, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is…
NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research
NASA is flexing its supercomputing muscle to help crack some of the most pressing questions surrounding…
Ames Contributions to SpaceX Commercial Crew Missions
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley made key technical contributions to NASA’s Commercial Crew…
Testing on the Ground Before You Fly: Wind Tunnels at NASA Ames
If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’ve probably been in a vehicle that NASA helped…
Top Ten Discoveries from SOFIA
Ten years ago, NASA’s telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, first peered into the cosmos. Since the…