Listen "Episode 315: AMS-02 Ready Willing and Able"
Episode Synopsis
On this episode, we talk about AMS-02. We discuss the history, cost, some basics of the instrument, how it is installed and activated. We include audio from several NASA Briefings on AMS-02 from the following:
Prof Samuel Ting, AMS Principal Investigator from MIT
Trent Martin, NASA AMS Program Manager from JSC
Mark Kelly, Commander of STS-134
Our own Talking Space - Mark Ratterman brings first hand information from three NASA media events at KSC and an up close picture of AMS in the Space Station Processing Facility
AMS-02 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has been dubbed the Hubble Telescope of cosmic rays
For further information check out: http://www.ams02.org/ and http://ams.nasa.gov/
For the AMS02 Briefing Materials: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/news/ams02_032411.html
For video of the AMS-02 Briefing at JSC http://youtu.be/MxPnAMLDmKY
Hosts this week: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman Show Recorded - 04/21/2011
Prof Samuel Ting, AMS Principal Investigator from MIT
Trent Martin, NASA AMS Program Manager from JSC
Mark Kelly, Commander of STS-134
Our own Talking Space - Mark Ratterman brings first hand information from three NASA media events at KSC and an up close picture of AMS in the Space Station Processing Facility
AMS-02 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has been dubbed the Hubble Telescope of cosmic rays
For further information check out: http://www.ams02.org/ and http://ams.nasa.gov/
For the AMS02 Briefing Materials: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/news/ams02_032411.html
For video of the AMS-02 Briefing at JSC http://youtu.be/MxPnAMLDmKY
Hosts this week: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman Show Recorded - 04/21/2011
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