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SOFIA in the News
Up All Night on NASA's Flying Telescope
(October 2011)
New Dimension of Space Exploration Takes Flight
NASA takes a look back in time
(July 2011)
Extreme Astronomy - Horizon: Seeing Stars
(August 2011)
NASA's Most Powerful Infrared Telescope Lives in a Modified 747
San Jose teacher picked for elite NASA mission
(May 2011)
Bay Area Teacher Chosen For NASA Project
(June 2011)
South Bay Teacher Gets Chance To Fly To Edge Of Space On NASA 747
Mercury Magazine: NASA's New Airborne Observatory Sees "First Light"
(Summer 2010)
Bill Nye Visits the SOFIA Telescope
(December 2010)
Local Teacher Prepares for Big Mission
SOFIA First Light Images Shown in Times Square
(June 2010)
NPR: NASA's Flying Telescope Sees Early Success
(July 2010)
StarDate: High-Flying
Aerospace America: SOFIA's Smooth Ride Shakes Up Astronomy
(April 2010)
BBC Profile of SOFIA
Aviation Week: Starting SOFIA
(May 2010)
KRON-4 TV's Tech Reporter Gabriel Slate profiles SOFIA
(February 2010)
Space News: Successful Landing with Stuck Door Advances SOFIA Testing
(March 2010)
NASA Ames News: SOFIA Exhibit Lands at Hiller Aviation Museum
Scientific American: Mysteries of How a Star Is Born
Wired: NASA’s New Jumbo Jet Keeps Giant Eye on Heavens
Popular Science: The Telescope-Toting 747 That Sees More than Hubble
Wired: 747 Flies With A Big Hole In Its Fuselage … For Science
(January 2010)
Popular Science: Inside Sofia, NASA's Airplane-Mounted Telescope
Lab Out Loud: SOFIA -- A Telescope on a Plane
Flightglobal: Testing the Door on SOFIA
(November 2008)
ASK Magazine: SOFIA: Getting Airborne
(Winter 2009)
Discovery Channel Canada: SOFIA -- A Look Inside
(June 2009)
glassonweb.com: SOFIA's Telescope Primary Mirror
(December 2007)
Los Angeles Times: Scope In the Sky
(January 2008)
MercuryNews.com: SOFIA to open door on new era of astronomy
The (USRA) Researcher: Special on SOFIA and the SSMOC
(Summer 2005)
SOFIA featured in Space.com article
(June 2007)
Popular Science magazine names SOFIA in their list of "Best of What's New" for 2007
(November 2007)
SOFIA featured in California Wild
(Fall 2004)
SOFIA featured in front page article of Waco (Texas) Tribune
(September 16, 2004)
SOFIA featured in SpaceDaily article
(September 2004)
SOFIA featured in cover article in StarDate magazine
(November/December 2003)
Seeing Stars With SOFIA
(June 2002 Aerospace America)
Mercury Magazine: Flying Telescopes
(May/June 2002)
