SOFIA in the News

"NASA planned to wait until this summer to land the modified Boeing 747-SP jetliner at the agency’s Dryden Air Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., with the flying observatory’s telescope-cavity door partially open. But during a Feb. 11 flight test, a malfunction forced SOFIA’s pilots to make an open-door landing much sooner than expected."

-Space News, March 2010

SOFIA featured Space News (link to article) (March 2010)