Official departure of SOFIA from Hamburg
Official departure of SOFIA from Hamburg
From 28 June to 14 December 2014, the SOFIA airborne observatory operated by NASA and DLR underwent an extensive overhaul at Lufthansa Technik AG in Hamburg. The telescope (visible behind the group of people) was also serviced. There was an opportunity for a meeting between (from left): Alois Himmes, DLR SOFIA Project Manager; Steve Zornetzer, Associate Director of the NASA Ames Research Center; Alfred Krabbe, Director of the German SOFIA Institute (DSI), Andrea Razzaghi, Deputy Director of Astrophysics at NASA Headquarters; Gerd Gruppe, DLR Executive Board Member responsible for the Space Administration; Walter Heerdt, Senior Vice President, VIP and Executive Jet Solutions at Lufthansa Technik; Eddie Zavala, SOFIA Program Manager at NASA; David McBride, Director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.
