NASA researchers bid farewell to ‘flying laboratory’ at Ames Research Center

For many NASA scientists, flying aboard a decked-out Douglas DC-8 plane provided them some unique glimpses of Earth: the Moai on Easter Island, Central Park in New York and Mount Vesuvius in Italy. On Wednesday, some of the same scientists who worked on that “flying laboratory” looked on as it made one last flight over Ames Research Center in Mountain View before its retirement. Reem Hannun, a research scientist in the atmospheric science branch, attended the flyover with her two …