20 April 2004
Gravity Probe B
Leads the mission launched to test geodetic precession and frame dragging predicted by general relativity.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Vandenberg Air Force Base in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Leads the mission launched to test geodetic precession and frame dragging predicted by general relativity.
Provenance
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