NASA To Tackle Challenging AMS Spacewalk Repairs

Credit: AMS: NASA
HOUSTON—U.S. and European astronauts are prepared to embark early Nov. 15 on a complex sequence of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to overhaul the cooling system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a $2 billion cosmic ray observatory installed in May 2011 to search for...

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