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On this day in 2004 – November 20th – NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission was launched. (It's now called the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.)

The mission, with international participation, was designed to help solve the mystery of gamma-ray bursts.


Mona Evans
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