NASA's retired flying telescope heads to museum

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The aircraft will make its final flight on Tuesday (Dec. 13).

It's not off to the scrapyard quite yet for the historic aircraft that carried NASA's flying telescope.Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

aircraft, a modified Boeing 747SP that lofted a 106-inch reflective telescope on overnight flights. After nearly 20 years of flying as a commercial aircraft for PanAm and United, followed by eight years of science missions for NASA and DLR, SOFIA officially has a retirement home: the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz. On Tuesday , the aircraft will take its final flight, journeying from its former home, NASA's

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