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...RICCARDO GIACCONI Vice President Space Research and Systems Division HERBERT GURSKY Senior Project Director FRANK R. PAOLINI Director Space Research Department American Science & Engineering, Inc. Cambridge, Mass...
Wheeling with Stars. Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, who had planned the experiment along with Herbert Gursky and Frank Paolini of American Science & Engineering, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., waited impatiently for the next X-ray measuring rocket. When that rocket was fired aloft last October, though, its instruments viewed another part of the sky; they did not record what was going on in Scorpio. They did report on two weaker X-ray sources, and their findings suggested that the original, strong X-ray source was probably located far out in space, beyond the reaches of the solar system, wheeling around the earth...