A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the “Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,” was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. “All but two of the scientists who collaborated on AMS are located at CERN,” NASA project manager Trent Martin, who oversees the AMS project, told TechNewsWorld.
