NASA’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) plane will discover a everlasting residence within the Pima Air and Area Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The airplane is anticipated to make its ultimate flight from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Analysis Middle in Palmdale, California, to Tucson on Tuesday, Dec. 13.
“The SOFIA mission has a strong potential to encourage, from its discoveries in regards to the unknown in our universe, to the engineering achievements that broke new floor, to the worldwide cooperation that made all of it attainable,” mentioned Paul Hertz, senior advisor for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
“We’re excited SOFIA will proceed to interact a various new era of scientists, engineers, and explorers.”
The SOFIA plane is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to hold a reflecting telescope. Engineering improvements enabled a big door within the fuselage to stay open whereas the plane was in flight, permitting the telescope to watch infrared gentle from the Moon, planets, stars, star-forming areas, and close by galaxies. After a profitable eight years of science, SOFIA accomplished its science program and ended operations Sept. 29, 2022.
To find out a brand new residence for the aircraft after the top of the mission, NASA adopted laws for the disposition of extra authorities tools. Pima, one of many world’s largest aerospace museums, is creating plans for when and the way the SOFIA plane will ultimately be on show to the general public.
Together with six hangars, 80 acres of outside show grounds, and greater than 425 plane from around the globe, Pima additionally has its personal restoration facility the place incoming plane like SOFIA are ready for museum immortalization after their arrival.
At Pima, the aircraft will be part of different notable NASA plane, like the primary Tremendous Guppy that transported Saturn V rocket components for the Apollo missions, and the KC-135 “Weightless Marvel V” that created low-gravity circumstances by flying parabolic arcs – steep climbs and dives – to conduct science experiments and prepare astronauts. NASA plans to help the exhibition of the SOFIA plane with further mission artifacts that talk to SOFIA’s legacy.
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