Endeavour will carry the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the ISS
Aboard The Shuttle, A $2 Billion Bid To Find Antimatter : NPR:
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Despite the controversy, the AMS will do solid, state-of-the-art science, says Sheldon Glashow, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist at Boston University.
'It will finally be true that there will be real science on the space station, something that has never been true before — it's been like high school experiments and a bunch of silliness,' Glashow says.
Among
other things.