ARCTAS Mission - NASA P-3 aircraft N426NA on tarmac at NASA's Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA) Mt. View, California

DC-8 NAMMA MISSION TO CAPE VERDE, AFRICA: U.S. Air Force C-17, Spirit of Ronald Reagan, taxis after landing at Sal Island's Amilcar Cabral International Airport carrying equipment and supplies for the mission

SOFIA (Stratospheric Ovservatory for Infrared Astronomy) visit to Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA: landing

ARCTAS Mission - NASA P-3 aircraft N426NA takes off from NASA's Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA) Mt. View, California

DC-8 NAMMA MISSION TO CAPE VERDE, AFRICA: U.S. Air Force C-17, Spirit of Ronald Reagan, lands at Sal Island's Amilcar Cabral International Airport carrying equipment and supplies for the mission, NASA DC-8 in foreground.

SOFIA (Stratospheric Ovservatory for Infrared Astronomy) visit to Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA: tail

Kepler activities at Smithsonian Institution; Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Mt Hopkins AZ for Kepler input catalog (nearing completion). Protective domes cover the 1.5-meter (60-inch, left) and 1.2-meter (48-inch, right) telescopes.

ARCTAS Mission - NASA P-3 aircraft N426NA on tarmac at NASA's Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA) Mt. View, California

SOFIA (Stratospheric Ovservatory for Infrared Astronomy) visit to Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA: landing

DC-8 NAMMA MISSION TO CAPE VERDE, AFRICA: NASA'S DC-8 parked on ramp of Sal Island's Amilcar Cabral International Airport in the Cape Verde Islands. NASA Ames photographer Eric James is seen in the foreground carrying equipment off the airplane.

SOFIA visit to Ames: landing

DC-8 NAMMA MISSION TO CAPE VERDE, AFRICA: U.K.'s Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) aircraft, a BAE-146, over the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal, Africa