Uncertain Fate Looms For NASA’s Two Largest Research Aircraft
Credit: Jim Ross/NASA
NASA’s two largest research aircraft, the Boeing 747SP airborne observatory and the McDonnell Douglas DC-8 flying laboratory, face an increasingly uncertain future amid budget reductions and growing problems of parts obsolescence. Funding for the 747SP Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared...
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