SOFIA Trans-Atlantic patch

This patch was flown on the first trans-Atlantic flight of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which took place on the night of Sept. 15/16, 2011. The flight departed from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (DAOF) in Palmdale, California, and landed at the Cologne/Bonn Airport, home of the German Aerospace Agency. During this flight, science was collected by the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT), a spectrometer developed by a team from the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. The patch depicts SOFIA above a stylized map of the event, surrounded by flags of the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany.

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