{"id":244527,"date":"2016-11-14T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20160013332"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:19:50","slug":"the-making-of-sofia-the-stratospheric-observatory-for-infrared-astronomy-1985-to-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=244527","title":{"rendered":"The Making of SOFIA &#8211; The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy &#8211; 1985 to 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: This book serves to document the history of the making of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a Boeing 747SP carrying a 2.7 meter telescope operating in an open-port cavity. The perspective is primarily from the engineering standpoint, or actually from my perspective. My name is Nans Kunz. I was significantly involved in the development of SOFIA from the beginning; a time span of just prior to the establishment of the SOFIA Study Office in 1985 to about half a year beyon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: This book serves to document the history of the making of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a Boeing 747SP carrying a 2.7 meter telescope operating in an open-port cavity. The perspective is primarily from the engineer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244528,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244527\/revisions\/244528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}