NASA and Germany have spent 15 years and billions of dollars on SOFIA, an airborne telescope that is about to produce its first results. Eric Hand asks whether the science will justify the cost.
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Hand, E. Astronomy: Ready for boarding — finally. Nature 466, 428–431 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466428a
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