THE MAGNIFICENT MISSION.(new space probe might determine age of universe)

From: Discover | Date: May 1, 2000| Author: FOLGER, TIM | Copyright information

In six months NASA will launch one of the most ambitious spacecraft ever conceived--designed to look back through time and tell us the greatest secrets of the universe, including how it will end

ASTROPHYSICIST GARY HINSHAW STANDS IN FRONT OF TWO FOUR-STORY steel doors--each several inches thick--at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, trying not to think about what the torture chamber on the other side of those doors might do to his beloved spacecra...

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