Posted on 06/13/2008 2:15:12 PM PDT by sig226
Explanation: Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke, this Delta II rocket left Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's launch pad 17-B Wednesday at 12:05 pm EDT. Snug in the payload section was GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, now in orbit around planet Earth. GLAST's detector technology was developed for use in terrestrial particle accelerators. But from orbit, GLAST can study gamma-rays from extreme environments in our own Milky Way galaxy, as well as supermassive black holes at the centers of distant active galaxies, and the sources of powerful gamma-ray bursts. Those cosmic accelerators achieve energies not attainable in earthbound laboratories. GLAST also has the sensitivity to search for signatures of new physics in the relatively unexplored high-energy gamma-ray regime.
Kewl... Have a great weekend.
Smoke from nine or possibly more strap-on solid boosters. The core rocket burns hydrogen, nearly no smoke nor light.
NASA just said “commence fluid loading to prevent vestibular effects during landing”.
Pompous ass.
I would have said “Drink something so you do not dehydrate”.
Southwest air would have said “coffee, tea or soda pop?”
....Bob
Although this post was intended for the shuttle landing thread and accidently posted here, at least it is about NASA.
Things just naturally work out in my life....
.....Bob
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