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this is a story about catching rays the

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kind that Loras here and the kind that

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show doctor's unseen parts of the human

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body but this is not a story about

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getting a better tan or making better

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medicine instead this is a story about

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NASA and astronomers about the Space

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Shuttle Space Lab and a sensitive

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Observatory that may show us our

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universe in a whole new light for 10

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days in May a Spacelab mission called

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Astro wand will focus its ultraviolet

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and x-ray telescopes on places far

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beyond our reach it's sensitive

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instruments will catch the Rays

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ultraviolet and x-ray messages that is

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from these distant places these

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messengers invisible to the human eye

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will bring new information about

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exploding stars that forge the elements

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used to make new stars planets and even

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life itself about tiny stars where a

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sugar cube of matter weighs as much as a

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billion tons about mysterious objects

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that shine with the brilliance of 10

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trillion of our own Suns and about

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so-called black holes in the very fabric

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of space that are so gravitationally

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strong that neither matter nor light can

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escape from them Astro one will show us

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a violent ever-changing universe

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unlike the peaceful serene heavens we

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see with the naked eye or from

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ground-based optical telescopes but why

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does this astronomy have to be done in

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space we look at the light from stars

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and galaxies from the ground we really

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don't see all of it most of most stars

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and galaxies emit a lot of light that

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doesn't reach the ground that's because

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our atmosphere acts like a protective

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blanket shielding us from all of the

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message carrying ultraviolet in x-rays

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well almost all of them anyway

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but in space this radiation is a rich

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barely tapped resource of information

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about the universe Astro one will open

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our eyes to the knowledge hidden in the

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invisible universe this is the first

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opportunity we've ever had to place an

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observatory like this into outer space

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manned by astronaut astronomers

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will afford us an opportunity to take a

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view of the universe such as we have

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never seen it before we'll be able to

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look at celestial objects with

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ultraviolent telescopes and an x-ray

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telescope and this is going to tell us a

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whole lot about the composition of our

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universe the history of the universe and

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the future the universe Astro one is a

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team effort astronomers in space will

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operate the telescopes they will work

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with astronomers on the ground in a

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brand-new Space Lab control center at

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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in

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Huntsville Alabama other astronomers

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will participate from a facility at the

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Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt

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Maryland together they are in search of

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knowledge trying to prove the expected

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always anticipating the unexpected

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surprises come in fact that's the fun

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thing about science and I think that's

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the thing that drives most of us

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involved with Astro we think we

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understand what these objects are and

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what radiation they're going to admit

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when we go and measure them in the ultra

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product or X radiation but we know that

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they're going to be unanticipated

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discoveries people once stood on the

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beach and look to the horizon at what

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they believed was a flat world then

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explorers took to the vast unknown

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returning information that forever

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changed human thought perhaps we are

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standing on a similar Coast line

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awaiting discoveries that could lead us

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to a whole new understanding of our

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universe