CERN

U.S. Ambassador Hamamoto and CERN Director General Heuer Sign Protocols for Cooperation

Posted on December 18, 2015
CERN

There is nothing more fundamental than what unites us here today, the desire and commitment to combine our strengths and expertise to solve the defining challenges and questions of our time.

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U.S. Airforce Transports CERN Physics Experiment from Geneva to Kennedy Space Center on First Leg of Journey to Space

Posted on August 25, 2010
The AMS is Loaded onto a USAF C5 Galaxy Aircraft

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, will be flown August 26 aboard a giant U.S. Airforce Galaxy jet from Geneva International Airport to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The AMS experiment is scheduled to be transported on the last space shuttle flight in February 2011to the International Space Station It will be the largest scientific instrument on the Space Station and the largest physics experiment in space. AMS will help us to understand the origin and structure of the Universe by searching for signs of antimatter and dark matter.

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