Episode 315: AMS-02 Ready Willing and Able
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 ...
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 MITTrent Martin, NASA AMS Program Manager from JSCMark Kelly, Commander of STS-134Our 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.htmlFor video of the AMS-02 Briefing at JSC http://youtu.be/MxPnAMLDmKYHosts this week: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman Show Recorded - 04/21/2011