In Brief: NASA's SIRTF successfully launched

SIRTF LAUNCHED: NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) was launched successfully Aug. 25 from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin said. SIRTF is the largest infrared space telescope ever built and will study the most distant and coldest objects in the universe...

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