Dec 21 1998
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had renamed the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility the Chandra X-ray Observatory, in honor of the late Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. NASA chose the name Chandra because it was the late scientist's preferred name among friends and colleagues, and because it means moon or luminous in Sanskrit. NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin commented that Chandrasekhar had made "fundamental contributions to the theory of black holes and other phenomena," which the Chandra X-ray Observatory would study. NASA also announced that it had set a new launch date for the observatory no earlier than 8 April 1999.
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