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More Pieces of the X-59 are Coming Together
More Pieces of the X-59 are Coming Together

The wing and cockpit sections of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) are coming together at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works®…

Two Day Old Bush Fire in Arizona Over 14,000 Acres
Two Day Old Bush Fire in Arizona Over 14,000 Acres

Bush Fire in Arizona is two days old and has already burned over 14,000 acres.

Bringing Einstein’s Concepts to Life Through Art
Bringing Einstein’s Concepts to Life Through Art

Launched on April 20, 2004, Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was a collaboration between Stanford University and NASA designed to test…

What is Gravity Probe B?
What is Gravity Probe B?

Launched on April 20, 2004, Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was a collaboration between Stanford University and NASA designed to test…

Einstein and General Relativity
Einstein and General Relativity

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was embedded deeply within the larger framework of nineteenth and early twentieth century theory and…

Theoretical and Experimental Background
Theoretical and Experimental Background

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was embedded deeply within the larger framework of nineteenth and early twentieth century theory and…

Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B
Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B

For decades following its initial verification by a 1919 eclipse expedition which observed the deflection of starlight by the Sun…

Four Gyroscopes
Four Gyroscopes

Critical to Gravity Probe B were four gyroscopes consisting of spinning spheres of solid fused quartz encased within a quartz…

Superconductivity and SQUIDs
Superconductivity and SQUIDs

Reading the spin direction of a perfectly round object presented experimenters at Stanford with a complex and critical problem. Solving…

Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq
Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq

Russia's Progress 74 cargo craft is pictured docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment as the orbital complex…