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A star, telescope and a spinning sphere are all that are necessary but the precise technologies needed to make this orbiting time-space experiment reality took 4 decades to develop.
Credit: Designed by Bob Kahn & James Overduin, Stanford/GP-B; Animators Lee Kolb & Greg Trent, NASA/MSFC
