{"id":208654,"date":"2025-05-01T04:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4de9a00e27586a752bf1bfcb1402326e"},"modified":"2025-05-01T04:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:44:36","slug":"nasa-completes-kuiper-deconstruction-plans-for-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=208654","title":{"rendered":"NASA Completes Kuiper Deconstruction, Plans for Display"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory at Moffett Field, California.<\/div>\n
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The planned deconstruction, disposal, and preservation of historic parts of NASA\u2019s decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory<\/a> is complete. Part of the airborne astronomy legacy of NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley, Kuiper conducted more than two decades of astronomical observations from 1975 to 1995. Later this year, the Kuiper cockpit will go on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum<\/a> in Pima, Arizona, where NASA\u2019s retired SOFIA<\/a> (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) aircraft is located, while its telescope will go on display at the Moffett Field Museum<\/a> in the NASA Research Park.<\/p>\n

Author: Cara Dodge<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The planned deconstruction, disposal, and preservation of historic parts of NASA\u2019s decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory is complete. Part of the airborne astronomy legacy of NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley, Kuiper conducted more than two decades of astronomical observations from 1975 to 1995. Later this year, the Kuiper cockpit will go on display [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-research-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t