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SOFIA takes off from Christchurch airport

SOFIA takes off from Christchurch airport

Date: 
7/26/2016

SOFIA takes off from Christchurch airport, New Zealand, during the 2016 Southern Hemisphere deployment.

Credit: 
Waynne Williams
Image Number: 
OBS_0036
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Location: 
  • NASA
  • DLR
  • USRA
  • DSI
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Rob Landis
NASA
Project Manager

Naseem Rangwala
NASA
Project Scientist

Margaret Meixner, USRA
Science Mission Operations Director