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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — NASA
on Tuesday launched a $750
million satellite conceived dur
ing the Eisenhower administra
tion to test two of Albert
Einstein’s fundamental predic
tions about the universe.
The Gravity Probe B satellite
blasted off from an Oceanside
pad at Vandenberg Air Force
Base at 9:57 a.m. PDT. The
launch, aboard a Delta II rocket,
came one day after officials
scrubbed an earlier attempt.
The satellite was to sepa
rate from the rocket and begin
its 18-month mission 75 min
utes after liftoff.
The launch of the 6,800-
pound, Lockheed Martin
Corp.-built spacecraft marked
the end of the longest develop
ment period of any mission in
the history of the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Scientists first proposed
what became Gravity Probe B
in 1959, a year after the
launch of the first American
satellite and the creation of
NASA. Over the decades, it
weathered more than a half-
dozen attempts at cancellation
amid concerns over cost over
runs and technical hurdles.
The Earth-orbiting satellite
was built to test two of
Einstein’s predictionsa
nature of space andtime.s
how the rotating Earths?
and twists the fabric thaita
bines the two.
Scientists at!
University designed thes;
craft around four sphetesj
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balls. They are the i
feet spheres ever made.
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ing up the satellite iiup ; .;[
with a distant star a
the balls spinning, tneiij
ment should shift offkilul
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in response to the mass*
rotation of the Earth.
Nichols on trial
)udge to allow testimony from Fork
By Tim Talley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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McALESTER. Okla. — The prosecution’s
star witness in the Terry Nichols murder trial
began testifying Tuesday after a judge allowed
him to discuss the alleged conspiracy between
Nichols and Timothy McVeigh to bomb the
Oklahoma City federal building.
Michael Fortier’s testimony focused on how
he. Nichols and McVeigh met as Army buddies
stationed together at Fort Riley, Kan.
Two years after Fortier left
the Army. McVeigh showed up
unannounced at his home in
Kingman. Ariz.. shortly after the
April 19. 1993, government raid
at the Branch Davidian com
pound in Waco, Texas, in which
about 80 people died. McVeigh
was upset over the raid.
“He was speaking about the
fire that had occurred in Waco,
Texas,” Fortier said. “He was
excited and angry about it.”
The Oklahoma City bombing
came exactly two years after the
raid, and prosecutors say it was a
twisted attempt at revenge.
Nichols’ attorneys had asked
the judge to prohibit conspiracy
He was speak
ing about the fire
that had occurred
in Waco, Texas. He
was excited and
angry about it.
— Michael Fortier,
friend of Nichols and
McVeigh, on Nichols' behavior
under heavy security Tuesday.
In a hearing after the jury was senltiOE|
Monday, attorneys for Nichols claimedik
prosecution is w ithholding evidencettuiD:
cial to his defense.
Federal law enforcement authoritiesle
at the hearing that the material Nichols’!
are seeking may not exist.
Chief among evidence the defensesaysiil
wants handed over is purported secunt)vi
footage of the attack that suggests Mcieitfc
may have had accomplices at the scene
In a 90-page motieolil
week, the attorneysisieJtlie
judge to dismiss firsts
murder charges against^
because prosecutors have ;
attempts to obtain evident
McVeigh’s connection
other co-conspirators.
Current and former FBli
Secret Service agents tesi]
that the existence of suclie l
dence is purely specutoe
“There is no such tape.'J
Jon Hers ley, a retired FBI 23
who was a primary investfi]
the April 19,1995,1
the Oklahoma City federal!
ing. which killed 168peo|
Taylor was to rule on
testimony from Fortier because he wasn’t
charged as a conspirator.
Judge Steven Taylor said evidence in
Nichols’ trial indicates there was a conspiracy
between McVeigh and Nichols. He also said
that previous federal testimony from Fortier
indicates he was part of that conspiracy.
Fortier, serving 12 years in prison for know
ing about the bombing plot, but not telling
authorities, was brought to the courthouse
Nichols’ motion Tuesday night.
Nichols and McVeigh were convicieM
eral charges for the deaths of eight feW I
agents in the April 19, 1995, bombing of
Alfred R Murrah building. McVeigh waits
cuted in 2001 and Nichols was sent top®!
for life.
Nichols, 49, faces 161 state murder<4
for the other victims and a fetus of one o'J|
victims.
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