![]() “I am quite confident that once we start measuring data in space, we will find things that we never anticipated,” NASA’s AMS Project Manager Trent Martin said. And that’s just what the scientists know to look for. It will search for clues on what the universe is made of and how it began, the origin of dark matter, antimatter and strangelets, pulsars, blazers and gamma ray bursters. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a state-of-the-art, high energy particle physics experiment built in Geneva by a collaboration of 16 different countries. It is, without a doubt, going to continue to rewrite our future as we try to figure out our past.” It’s bigger than a VW bug, and it will be able to look at things that the other observatories aren’t even looking at. “They’ve been working on this for well over 15 years now. “The AMS is an amazing story all by itself,” said Gary Horlacher, lead space shuttle flight director for the mission. On STS-134, however, it will help push boundaries of a different sort as it delivers a new, cutting edge science experiment to the space station: the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. And in its cargo bay, the first two pieces of the International Space Station were joined together. ![]() Its airlock is the only one to have seen three spacewalkers exit through it for a single spacewalk. Its STS-67 mission set a length record almost two full days longer than any shuttle mission before it. Space shuttle Endeavour has spent 19 years pushing boundaries, and its final mission will allow that legacy to live on.Īmong Endeavour’s missions was the first to include four spacewalks, and then the first to include five. ![]()
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