Nov 2 1987
From The Space Library
Officials at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, reported that NASA's C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory would leave on October 31, 1987, for New Zealand on a month-long mission to study the supernova SN-1987a. Scientists aboard the Kuiper would make eight research flights to study the supernova, located 170,000 light years away. Supernova SN-1987a is the closest supernova to Earth since the invention of a telescope some 400 years ago. (NASA Release 87-162; Av Wk, Nov. 9/87)
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