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Giacconi, who viewed the launch from Cape Canaveral last week with about 20 other scientists from the Center for Astrophysics, said the mission, originally scheduled to last about a year, may run for more than three years depending on when the fuel needed to keep the telescope stable runs...
...tense silence filled Room 306-B at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (HSCFA) early yesterday morning as about 50 astronomers, students and friends listened to the final seconds of countdown before the launch of a satellite designed to probe the most distant recesses of the universe...
When, about half an hour after launch, HEAO-2 successfully deployed its power-supplying solar panels and separated from its boosters, those listening at HSCFA burst into applause and celebrated with quiche, Chablis and pretzels, as a champagne cork popped across the room...
...Everything went just as perfectly as it could go," Leon P. VanSpeybroeck, associate of the Harvard College Observatory who designed the X-ray telescope aboard HEAO-2, said yesterday from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where he monitored the launch. Along with HSCFA, groups at Goddard, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are co-sponsoring the mission...
Patey concedes that Liverpool's Cathedral was built only because it was started long ago: to launch a similar project now "would not fit the mood of the church today." But, he adds, "we have here in the work of stonemasons, stained glass artists, carpenters, sculptors, organ builders, metal workers, clear evidence that in an age which too easily tolerates the shoddy and second-rate, we can find craftsmen who can match any who have gone before. I'm glad that Merseyside has actually completed one of the great buildings of the world in a century...