home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Cover Story: Chandra Delivers . ... Images Courtesy of NASA/SAO/CXC/Giuseppina Fabbiano et al. and NASA/CXC/SAO. ... But whatever these objects are, we weren?t able to see them at all with any instrument before the launch of NASA?s Chandra X-ray Observatory in July 1999. ... NASA promised that the Chandra mission would be tantamount to finally seeing the universe through a good pair of X-ray eyeglasses. ...