... the early morning hours of May 26, when the aircraft's telescope and attached infrared camera collected light from celestial ... The flight was conducted from NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at the Palmdale Airport in Southern California. ...
... The Pima Air and Space Museum is located just a few minutes drive from the hotel and offers a unique educational experience on aviation with more than 250 aircrafts, exhibits, and events. ...
... workshops, meetings, the ASP's "Outreach for Amateurs" workshop, tours to Lick Observatory and Chabot Space & Science Center, and finally a very special evening aboard the USS Hornet, the history-making aircraft carrier that recovered Apollo 11 and 12 ...
... At 12,000 meters (41,000 feet), the NASA aircraft flies high above the clouds and water vapor that hide much of the universe -- including the birthplace of stars and the center of the Galaxy -- from us on the ground. ...
... you know) flies a high-altitude aircraft that happens to go across polar routes, or ... problem if you are trying to steer an aircraft or a large ship during a big space ...
... In a brilliant and subtle experiment, a group of astronomers making observations with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (a converted jet aircraft with a 91-cm telescope on board) were able to estimate the temperature of the solid ice within the comet's core ...