NASA Set To Test Einstein's Relativity Theory

A $700-million scientific spacecraft more than 40 years in the making is poised for launch on a mission to try to measure directly the extremely subtle effects of Earth's passage through space-time predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. NASA's Gravity Probe-B (GP-B) is set for...

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