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#OTD in 1970, @nasa launched its first Earth-orbiting satellite entirely devoted to the study of cosmic X-ray sources. 🚀 Marjorie Townsend, conducting preflight checks with Bruno Rossi in this image, named the satellite Uhuru, which means "freedom" in Swahili.
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