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Travels of the Chandra
Mirrors
The Chandra mirrors were polished and ground at Raytheon Optical Systems
in Danbury, CT. They were then moved to Santa Rosa, CA, via a moving van,
where they were cleaned & coated with iridium at Optical Coating
Laboratories, Inc. The mirrors were then driven to Eastman Kodak Company in
Rochester, NY, where they were assembled. Next, the telescope system was
put aboard a C5 military aircraft, flown to Huntsville, AL and delivered to
the Marshall Space Flight Center for calibration. It was then flown to TRW (now NGST)
in Redondo Beach, CA for integration. Finally, the whole observatory was
flown to Cape Canaveral, FL and placed on the space shuttle for launch.
(Illustration: NASA/CXC)
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