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Why NASA Is Launching a Mission to Save a Quarter-Billion Dollar Space Telescope


made a good bet when it built the Swift Space Telescope. Launched in 2004, Swift has spent more than a generation observing gamma ray bursts—the most powerful forms of energy since the Big Bang.

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