Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton [ http://cossc.gsfc.n…], the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) [ http://cossc.gsfc.n…] Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. CGRO's mission is to explore the Universe at gamma-ray energies. The massive space based observatory is seen here held upright in the shuttle payload bay behind smiling astronaut Jerry Ross [ http://www.jsc.nasa…]. Ross and his colleague Jay Apt [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] have just finished a successful, unplanned spacewalk to free a jammed antenna prior to releasing CGRO into orbit. CGRO has been operating successfully since, providing the first all-sky survey at gamma-ray energies [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] along with exciting new observations of the sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], quasars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], pulsars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], supernova [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], black holes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], and gamma-ray bursts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
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Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton [ http://cossc.gsfc.n…], the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) [ http://cossc.gsfc.n…] Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. CGRO's mission is to explore the Universe at gamma-ray energies. The massive space based observatory is seen here held upright in the shuttle payload bay behind smiling astronaut Jerry Ross [ http://www.jsc.nasa…]. Ross and his colleague Jay Apt [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] have just finished a successful, unplanned spacewalk to free a jammed antenna prior to releasing CGRO into orbit. CGRO has been operating successfully since, providing the first all-sky survey at gamma-ray energies [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] along with exciting new observations of the sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], quasars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], pulsars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], supernova [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], black holes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], and gamma-ray bursts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
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//www.nasa.gov/">NAS A, STS-37 Crew [ http://www.ksc.nasa…sts-37/mission-sts-3 7.html ].
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//www.nasa.gov/">NAS A, STS-37 Crew [ http://www.ksc.nasa…sts-37/mission-sts-3 7.html ].
