NASA Launches Balloon-Borne Telescope On Week-long Mission

NASA's Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (Blast) lifted off from the Swedish Space Corp.'s Arctic Esrange facility June 12 at the beginning of what astronomers hope will be a 6-9-day stratospheric circuit around the high latitudes. It is to survey distant galaxies at the far...

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