This 9-minute, 19-second video shows the twelve two-person teams were competitively selected in 2014 for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (AAA) program. This year's ambassadors represent teachers from 10 states. After their flight opportunities, Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors will take what they learn back to their classrooms and into their communities to promote science literacy.

For the May 5, 2014 flight, four Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors were on board. The two teams of educators for this flight included Heidi Steinbrink from Oakwood Senior High School, Dayton, OH; Tom Jenkins from the Dayton Regional STEM Center and Greenon Local Schools, Enon, OH; Marcella Linahan, Carmel Catholic High School, Mundelein, IL; and Lynne Zielinski from the National Space Society, Long Grove, IL. In addition to working with astronomers on the flight, the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors conducted their own astronomy and physics experiments.

SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The flying observatory is managed from, and is based at the Armstrong Flight Research Center's Hangar 703 facility in Palmdale, CA. NASA Ames Research Center manages the SOFIA science and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in Columbia, MD, and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI) at the University of Stuttgart

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