The country can listen to and learn from these people because of their experience and generosity of spirit. It includes African-American spirituals and narration by Jo Ann Allen. Soon after the Civil War ended, African Americans got the vote and Black politicians gained high office for the first time in history. It is a landmark public radio special series about the latest developments in genetic science, hosted by journalist John Hockenberry. The telescope, built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory at USU, is enclosed in a container designed by Lockheed Martin that will hold solid hydrogen to super-cool the instrument.
Infrared wavelengths are too long to be seen, but infrared radiation is sensed as heat.
The telescope must be kept so cold that its own heat does not obscure its view. WIRE's mirrors are cooled to less than 13 Kelvin or -436 Fahrenheit. WIRE was selected in 1994 as the fifth mission in NASA's Small Explorer program. The Origins Program focuses on understanding how life arose on Earth and determining if life exists elsewhere in the universe. The goal of the WIRE mission is to understand the history of star formation, because stars, like our sun, make life possible on planets such as Earth.