AMS-2: The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind

The Washington Post : After years of delays, NASA hopes to launch this week a European-built laboratory that will greatly expand the research capability of the international space station. Although some call it a milestone, the launch has focused new attention on the space agency’s earlier decision to back out of plans to send up a different, $1.5 billion device -- one that many scientists contend would produce far more significant knowledge. Related story: Multiple problems push LHC start to next spring Physics Today - September 2007