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NASA Launches Gamma -Ray Space Telescope

NASA Launches Gamma-Ray Space TelescopeThursday, June 12, 2008Print APJune 11: A crowd in Cocoa Beach, Fla., watches the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's GLAST telescope skyward.June 11: A crowd in Cocoa Beach, Fla., watches the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's GLAST telescope skyward.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —  NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.GLAST — a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope — began its five- to 10-year mission with a midday blastoff aboard a Delta rocket.Everything went well and, in just over an hour, the telescope was orbiting 345 miles above Earth precisely as planned, generating applause in Launch Control."We couldn't be happier," said NASA project scientist Steven Ritz.• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Space Center.The $690 million telescope, supported by six countries, will pick up where NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory left off before its deliberate destruction...

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