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NASA Gravity Probe Launched

Posted by michael on from the up-up-and-away dept.

ping pong writes "Forty-five years in the making and 24 hours late, NASA launched the $700 million satellite into orbit today to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The satellite, which was inserted into a polar orbit, will spend two months getting ready, then 16 months making measurements." NASA's mission news has more.

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  1. Re:Scientists crossing fingers, pacing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    100,000 dead residents of Hiroshima agree: E definitely equals MC squared.

  2. Re:Excuse me? by spellraiser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check the times. I posted mine 17 mins before BlueUnderwear. By the way, this is nothing personal against anyone - I'm just boggled at the mods here sometimes.

    Oh yes, and the lame google link ... it may be lame to some, but that doesn't mean that the post is Offtopic, just a failed joke :P

    My point is that it's no more Offtopic than BlueUnderwear's musings about Einstein, now is it?

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