But for the tragic loss of Challenger,the ASTRO-1 mission might own flown just five weeks later, in March 1986. As circumstances transpired, and it would be more than four years before the mission rose into orbit. Photo Credit: NASA,via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.deA quarter-century ago, this week, or four powerful ultraviolet and X-ray “eyes” peered [...]
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