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SOFIA Presentations to Educators and Students

These presentations are available for public use, but please credit "NASA/SOFIA Outreach".

Presentation on SOFIA and Cosmic Evolution by D. Backman at the April 2013 San Antonio, TX National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference.

NASA's SOFIA, Cosmic Evolution, and Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (D. Backman) (V Apr. 2013) (pdf, 6.1MB)

SOFIA ppt slide sets organized by topic, plus
complete presentations by E. Zavala, D. Backman, C. Clark, and P. Harman

SOFIA Mission Operations (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 9MB)

SOFIA Science (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 13MB)

SOFIA Telescope Instruments (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 13MB)

SOFIA's Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 10MB)

Airborne Astronomy History (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 22MB)

EM Radiation and Multiwavelength Astronomy (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 11MB)

SOFIA Aircraft History (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 17MB)

SOFIA Mission History (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 18MB)

Active Astronomy Classroom Kit (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 428KB)

Open Door Test video (.mov, 11MB)

SOFIA Overview and Aeronautics (E. Zavala) (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 10MB)

SOFIA and Active Astronomy Kits (D. Backman) (V. Oct. 2012) (ppt, 29MB)

NASA's SOFIA Mission and Cosmic Evolution (D. Backman) (V. Oct. 2012) (PDF, 39MB)

Telescopes and Multiwavelength Astronomy (D. Backman) (V. Oct. 2012) (PDF, 20MB)

Galileoscopes: Explore the EM Spectrum and the Universe (C. Clark, P. Harman, D. Backman) (V. Oct. 2012) (PDF, 9MB)

Astronomy from the Stratosphere: NASA's SOFIA Mission (D. Backman) (V Mar. 2013) (pdf, 25.8MB)