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Space Science XIII Presentation -
The Chandra Mission
by Donna Young
Updated 10/27/99

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Table of Contents:

The Chandra X-ray Observatory

Columbia Deployment of Chandra

Mission Overview Diagram

A Third of the Way to the Moon!

STS-93 Shuttle Crew

Astronaut Collage

Chandra's Telescope System

Schematic of Chandra Spacecraft

Special Mirrors

Travels of the AXAF Mirrors

Looking Inside

Catching X-rays

High & Low Energy Transmission Grating

High Resolution Camera

From Redondo Beach, California

To the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

The Data Trail

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Degrees of Radiation

Wilhelm Roentgen

First Attempt at X-rays

Early Missions

High Energy Collisions

Medical X-rays vs. X-ray Satellites

X-ray Vision

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The X-ray Sun

Continue to: Part 2 of the presentation (slides 29-54)

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