GLAST Off!

NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST for short) left Earth onboard a Delta II rocket. "The entire GLAST Team is elated," reports program manager Kevin Grady of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "The observatory is now on-orbit and all systems continue to operate as planned." Read today's Science@NASA story to learn about some of the exciting new science GLAST is expected to accomplish.

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