STS-134 Final Endeavour Mission

5/16/11 ~ 8:56 a.m.

On its final flight, Endeavour launches to the International Space Station with the $2 billion dollar particle physics experiment known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), built by the European Space Agency. The AMS will detect and measure cosmic rays and search the universe for increasing evidence of dark matter and antimatter. Also pictured is Samuel Ting, MIT professor, Nobel prize winner and principal investigator of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

Samuel Ting, MIT professor, Nobel prize winner and principal investigator of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Cover story shot for the Boston Globe.