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NASA Scraps Telescope to Study Black Holes

'GEMS' project was coming in way over budget

By the Associated Press

Posted Jun 7, 2012 6:02 PM CDT

(AP) – NASA killed a new X-ray telescope mission today, two years before its planned launch. The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission, or GEMS for short, was supposed to blast off in 2014 to study black holes and neutron stars. But external reviews found the...   Read full story »

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