It is the midnight of June 18, 1962, in the desert of southern New Mexico, that young physicist .Riccardo Giacconi and his team watched a sounding rocket pierce through the dark sky. Their mission, funded by the Unite...It is the midnight of June 18, 1962, in the desert of southern New Mexico, that young physicist .Riccardo Giacconi and his team watched a sounding rocket pierce through the dark sky. Their mission, funded by the United States Air Force, was to detect reflected X-rays from the Moon and help the US get a head start in the lunar exploration race against the Soviet Union. Before that, people had never observed X-radiation from the outer space other than the Sun.展开更多
文摘It is the midnight of June 18, 1962, in the desert of southern New Mexico, that young physicist .Riccardo Giacconi and his team watched a sounding rocket pierce through the dark sky. Their mission, funded by the United States Air Force, was to detect reflected X-rays from the Moon and help the US get a head start in the lunar exploration race against the Soviet Union. Before that, people had never observed X-radiation from the outer space other than the Sun.
