NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory faces termination again

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From SpaceNews.com:
"WASHINGTON — NASA’s fiscal year 2021 budget request proposes cancelling an airborne observatory, a move that has surprised many astronomers but is also not the first time the project has faced termination.

The budget proposal, released Feb. 10, included the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) among the programs slated for termination. SOFIA, which received $85.2 million in the fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill, would get $12 million in fiscal year 2021 to close out the program and mothball the observatory."

https://spacenews.com/nasas-sofia-airbo ... ion-again/

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[Graeme1858]

Sad one that!