चन्द्र, चन्द्रा (Chandra - the moon)

There have been four "sisters" that comprised NASA's Great Observatories Program. They include, the oldest - "big" sister, if you will - the Hubble Space Telescope; Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, which sadly malfunctioned and was "de-orbited," and the "baby sister" the Spitzer infrared observatory, and the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date - Chandra. Over the years, Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra have provided the world incredible and spectacular images of the cosmos. On July 23, 1999 at 12:31 a.m. EDT, the solid rocket motors in the Solid Rocket Boosters on NASA Shuttle Transportation System 93 (STS-93) ignited. Under the command of Col. Eileen Collins, the shuttle lifted off the launch pad at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its mission: to carry NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory into space. photos, animation, and video NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/ Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory http://chandra.harvard.edu/ music star sailor 4 solar wind National Holographic http://www.studio713music.com/713_Interface.html conceived and produced by Dale Caruso To the gallant crew of STS-93; Eileen M. Collins commanding, and to the memory of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, regarded as one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century, and namesake of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This film is dedicated.