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What is Gravity Probe B?
What is Gravity Probe B?

Launched on April 20, 2004, Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was a collaboration between Stanford University and NASA designed to test…

Einstein and General Relativity
Einstein and General Relativity

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was embedded deeply within the larger framework of nineteenth and early twentieth century theory and…

Theoretical and Experimental Background
Theoretical and Experimental Background

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was embedded deeply within the larger framework of nineteenth and early twentieth century theory and…

Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B
Leonard Schiff and Birth of Gravity Probe B

For decades following its initial verification by a 1919 eclipse expedition which observed the deflection of starlight by the Sun…

Four Gyroscopes
Four Gyroscopes

Critical to Gravity Probe B were four gyroscopes consisting of spinning spheres of solid fused quartz encased within a quartz…

Superconductivity and SQUIDs
Superconductivity and SQUIDs

Reading the spin direction of a perfectly round object presented experimenters at Stanford with a complex and critical problem. Solving…

Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq
Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft above Iraq

Russia’s Progress 74 cargo craft is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment as the orbital complex…

Aft Skirts for Artemis I Move Out of Booster Fabrication Facility
Aft Skirts for Artemis I Move Out of Booster Fabrication Facility

Artemis I Aft Skirts for Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters Moved Out of Booster Fabrication Facility at Kennedy Space…

Stacking the Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters
Stacking the Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters

Two 177-foot-tall solid rocket boosters help launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis missions to the Moon.…

Fires On Grounds of Camp Pendleton, California
Fires On Grounds of Camp Pendleton, California

Fires on Camp Pendletons grounds in Southern California continue to blaze and smoke is reaching nearby cities and towns.