German teachers shortly before their SOFIA flight
German teachers shortly before their SOFIA flight
A first for the SOFIA education programme: during the night of 14 to 15 July 2011, German teachers flew on board the airborne observatory SOFIA for the very first time, with the aim of participating in the astronomical observations and later report on these to their pupils. From left to right: Wolfgang Viesser from the Christoph-Probst Gymnasium in Munich, Cecilia Scorza (German SOFIA Institute [Deutsches SOFIA Institut; DSI] Education Programme Coordinator), astronomer Jochen Eislöffel and Jörg Trebs from the Thomas-Mann Oberschule in Berlin.
