NASA Satellite Launched with SAO Payload
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PrintThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration's "Einstein" (HEAO-2) satellite is launched, carrying an x-ray telescope designed by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1979, p. 358
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
November 13, 1978