Last 'Great Observatory' Delivered For Launch
SIRTF DELIVERED NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), the last of the "great observatories" the U.S. space agency plans to orbit above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, has reached Cape Canaveral, Fla., for its planned Apr.15 launch date. Designed to search the heavens at dust-penetrating...
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