NASA/DLR SOFIA first light flight Engineering & Technology Videos

Now Playing: NASA/DLR SOFIA first light flight

Description: NASA video of the SOFIA airborne observatory preparing for its first light flight - its first in-flight observation mission - overnight May 25-26 from Palmdale, Calif. SOFIA is a modified 747SP equipped with a 2.7m reflecting telescope supplied by German Aerospace Center DLR. The first observations used Cornell Universitys FORCAST faint object infrared camera.