On this episode, we talk about AMS-02. We discuss the history, cost, some basics of the instrument, how it is installed and activated. We include audio from several NASA Briefings on AMS-02 from the following:

Prof Samuel Ting, AMS Principal Investigator from MIT

Trent Martin, NASA AMS Program Manager from JSC

Mark Kelly, Commander of STS-134

Our own Talking Space - Mark Ratterman brings first hand information from three NASA media events at KSC and an up close picture of AMS in the Space Station Processing Facility

For the AMS02 Briefing Materials: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/news/ams02_032411.html

For video of the AMS-02 Briefing at JSC http://youtu.be/MxPnAMLDmKY

Hosts this week: Gene Mikulka and Mark Ratterman Show Recorded - 04/21/2011