NASA renames spacecraft to honor research pioneer
NASA renamed its orbiting Microwave Anisotropy Probe in honor of David T. Wilkinson, a physics and cosmology pioneer who died in September, the aerospace agency said. The newly named Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, launched in June 2001, observes the cosmic microwave background, the oldest...
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