Endeavour launch lifts search for dark matter, antimatter to new heights
May 16, 2011 | 8:54 am
This morning the Endeavour launched from the Florida coast on its final mission. The NASA shuttle will deliver to the International Space Station the largest physics experiment to blast into space, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
AMS-02 will allow scientists to study highly energetic subatomic particles outside Earth’s atmosphere to search for signs of dark matter and primordial antimatter, or antimatter created during the big bang. Fifty-six institutions from 16 countries take part in the AMS-02 collaboration.
Read more about the experiment.
Kathryn Grim
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May 17th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Very Emotional, I remember watching the first flight of the
space shuttle in 1981. And was a little tearful at seeing the
last one, thirty years later. Frankly the space program hasn’t
progress anything like as fast as in thought it would, and there isn’t even a proper replacement for the shuttle.
May 17th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I wish this visit will open new window of scientific discovries and opportunity.