For Star subscribers: The Boeing 747 that carries a 17-ton telescope has arrived at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. It will become part of the permanent collection at Pima Air & Space Museum.
Henry Brean A NASA jumbo jet with one of the best window seats on the planet is about to join the permanent collection at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
“Once NASA decided that it was not going to keep the aircraft at one of its locations and the National Air & Space Museum declined, we were the next best destination,” Marchand said. “Truthfully, there are not many museums with the ability to land a 747 or manage it once it is on the ground, so in this instance we ended up being the sole museum to formally express interest.”
Round-trip flightTucson is a fitting place for SOFIA to end up, according to renowned infrared astronomer George Rieke, Regents’ professor at the University of Arizona. Those early successes in aerial astronomy prompted the development of NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a converted C-141 cargo aircraft fitted with a 36-inch reflecting telescope. It flew for 20 years and helped discover Pluto’s atmosphere, rings around Uranus, and water in comets and in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
Marchand said the retired 747 will eventually be displayed outside along with the museum’s other NASA aircraft, including the first Super Guppy used to transport Saturn V rocket parts for the Apollo missions, and a KC-135 “Weightless Wonder V” that made steep dives and climbs to simulate low-gravity conditions for science experiments and astronaut training.
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