New gamma ray satellite currently lodging in a comfortable 'clean room'

Pictured here in the General Dynamics clean room, standing are: Chip Meegan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Hunstville, Ala.; Peter Michelson, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Steve Ritz, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Kneeling are: Bill Atwood, University of California at Santa Cruz, Calif.; Dan Blackwood, NASA Goddard; Rick Harnden, NASA Headquarters, Washington; and Neil Johnson, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington. In the right corner, a technician checks the satellite. Credit: NASA, General Dynamics