Science in the Air GalleryNASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 chase plane during a flyover of the Dryden Aircraft...NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory is inspected and secured for the night at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida. NASA’s High Ice...NASA's DC-8 in flight for the NASA Student Airborne Research Project (SARP) to measure aerosols with the Langley Aerosol Research...The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, departed for scheduled maintenance at Lufthansa Technik’s facility in Hamburg, Germany, on Sept....NASA and Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 aircrafts met on the ramp in front of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703.Scientists aboard NASA’s DC-8 observe convective clouds over the Caribbean Sea during their June 10 science flight for the Convective...NASA’s C-20A prepares for an early morning flight over the Louisiana Coast to conduct observations on ground subsidence and sediment...NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This...SOFIA returns to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center building 703 in Palmdale, California.This photo of volcanoes in Guatemala was taken from NASA's C-20A aircraft during a four-week Earth science radar imaging mission...NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory flew low over San Joaquin Valley farm fields while specialized instruments collected air samples during...NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, takes off from its base of operations at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s...The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) makes a low pass over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in celebration of...SOFIA receiving a water-arch salute from the Christchurch International Airport fire brigade after landing in New Zealand (1:55pm local time...The DC-8 banking over the jagged peak of Mount Whitney on a February 25, 1998 flight. The DC-8 and a...NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center flies the DC-8 airborne science laboratoryNASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is shown inside the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg, Germany where it is...The UAVSAR underbelly pod is in clear view as NASA's Gulfstream C-20A research aircraft banks away over Edwards AFB during...