Steve Ritz, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Project Scientist,
spoke to us in May 2008, about one month before the launch of
Fermi. In this interview, he refers to Fermi by its pre-launch name of
GLAST (the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope). Listen as he talks
about what the mission will do
and as he shares his hopes and expectations for it.
Visit NASA's Fermi portal at www.nasa.gov/glast (http://www.nasa.gov/glast).
NASA's Fermi mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership,
developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with
important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S.
Imagine the Universe is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Dr. Alan Smale (Director), within the Astrophysics Science Division (ASD) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.