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January 18, 2013
(04/20/2004) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Gravity Probe B spacecraft, atop a Boeing Delta II vehicle, launches at 12:57:24 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Gravity Probe B is the relativity gyroscope experiment being developed by NASA and Stanford University to test two extraordinary, unverified predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Credit: NASA
Topics:
Spaceflight, Tests of general relativity, Physics, Technology Internet, Kennedy Space Center, Gravitation, Delta II, NASA, General relativity, Boeing, Gravity Probe B, Florida, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
