One of the little known and recognized historical inventors was honored on Monday when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to rename its new Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope spacecraft, the GLAST project after inventor Enrico Fermi.<br />

Newest NASA Telescope Renamed For Inventor Enrico Fermi

Washington, D.C.- One of the little known and recognized historical inventors was honored on Monday when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to rename its new Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope spacecraft, the GLAST project after inventor Enrico Fermi.

NASA launched the Fermi Spacecraft on June 11th this year and it has headed off on its space mission to explore the universe in search of high-energy gamma particles and other space phenomenon.

The first person to deal with and suggest that cosmic particles could be accelerated to high speeds, inventor Enrico Fermi has been largely ignored by popular science and history, but he made a number of rich scientific contributions.

The theories that Fermi advanced helps modern scientists with many of their theories and discoveries, the re naming the spacecraft was used as a way to pay homage to the historical inventor.

The new Fermi GLAST space telescope will likely discover a number of different space features including possible pulsars, and also be in place to locate and discover the location of black holes, different active galaxies and other physical space features.

The Fermi GLAST space telescope project is a partnership that the United States has with Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan.

The Fermi Spacecraft took off aboard a Delta II rocket from the launch pad in Florida and headed off on its hunt for gamma rays and other new space physical features.